
China's commerce ministry said the United States should remove what Beijing calls unreasonable tariffs before China expands bilateral trade, when asked whether it would buy U.S. soybeans. Traders said China had not yet booked any U.S. soybean cargoes from the autumn harvest and was sourcing South American supply instead.
Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans depend on tariff relief, so the timing of any tariff change would decide whether U.S. export demand returns. Until then, Brazilian supply keeps absorbing China's import needs and caps U.S. soybean prices.
After 250 past neutral trade events, Soybeans moved a median +0.0% over 5 sessions (50% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.6%), and -0.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.