# Fight Over Sorghum Offers a Taste of a Trade Retaliation

> China's Ministry of Commerce opened anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into U.S. grain sorghum imports in early February. The probe is a retaliatory move in the escalating U.S.-China trade dispute, and it has hit U.S. sorghum growers directly.

- Date: 2018-03-03 · published 2018-03-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region China · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/66060-fight-over-sorghum-offers-a-taste-of-a-trade-retaliation
- Commodities: [Sorghum](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SORGHUM.md)

## Why it matters

China is the dominant buyer of U.S. sorghum, so an investigation that could last a year or more threatens export demand and pressures domestic sorghum prices and basis.

## Read by commodity

- SORGHUM: bearish ▼

## Sources

- wsj.com: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fight-over-sorghum-offers-a-taste-of-a-trade-retaliation-1520082000?mod=e2twe&mod=e2twp

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