BEIJING — As Brazil takes a greater share of Chinese soybean purchases away from American farmers, the U.S. is trying to win back buyers by emphasizing crop quality.
"北美的大豆产量和南美的大豆产量有很大不同," 美国大豆出口委员会的卡洛斯·萨利纳斯, 执行董事, 东亚, 在周二于北京举行的中国国际供应链博览会上发表演讲时表示。
"Soybean production in North America and soybean production in South America is very different," Carlos Salinas, executive director, East Asia, at the U.S. Soybean Export Council said in a presentation Tuesday at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing.
He compared a range of weather factors between a city in Brazil and one in the U.S. state of Illinois, such as rainfall in the 30 days ahead of harvest: 231 millimeters versus 72 mm.
"这会影响作物状况。他说，这会影响质量,"。
"That impacts crop condition. That impacts quality," he said.
The half-day event for "advancing a sustainable and resilient U.S.-China soybean supply chain" was co-organized with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.
"What we really encourage buyers in soy to do is to make sure they're educating themselves on this to go deeper," Jim Sutter, CEO of the U.S. Soybean Export Council told CNBC on the sidelines of the event, noting new ways to measure quality and nutrition, especially for animal feed.
过去几年，美国大豆已成为中美贸易紧张局势升级的筹码。 Beijing, the world的 largest soybean importer, has also diversified its sourcing to Brazil and Argentina in an effort to ensure food security.
American soybeans have become a bargaining chip in the escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions over the last several years. Beijing, the world的 largest soybean importer, has also diversified its sourcing to Brazil and Argentina in an effort to ensure food security.
While the U.S. and Brazil each accounted for around 40% of China的 soybean imports a decade ago, Brazil started to take a far larger share in 2018 after the first round of U.S. tariffs on China, according CNBC calculations of Chinese customs data accessed through Wind Information.
数据显示，截至 2026, 的前五个月，中国大豆进口中超过 60%% 来自巴西,，23% 来自美国，10% 来自阿根廷,。
As of the first five months of 2026, more than 60% of China的 soybean imports came from Brazil, 23% from the U.S. and 10% from Argentina, the data showed.
U.S. soybean exports to China plunged 76% last year to $3.1 billion, down sharply from a peak of $17.9 billion in 2022, according to official U.S. figures. At 7.37 million metric tons, U.S. soybeans remained the largest American agricultural export to China during the last calendar year.
说服中国买家增加购买量需要时间。
Convincing Chinese buyers to ramp up purchases will take time.
Last month, the White House said China would buy at least $17 billion of U.S. agricultural goods annually through 2028, following U.S. President Donald Trump的 meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. That amount would be "in addition to the soybean purchase commitments that it made in October 2025."
After a Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea last fall, the U.S. said China agreed to buy at least 25 million metric tons of American soybeans in each of the following three years.
China has bought all 12 million metric tons of American soybeans that it agreed to purchase in the marketing year ending August 2026, and almost all of that has been shipped, Sutter said.
至于随后的2500万吨, Sutter表示，采购已于上周开始。
As for the subsequent 25 million metric tons, Sutter said purchases began last week.
还有进一步的迹象表明经济温和回升。
There are further signs of a modest pickup.
"在过去一周半,，中国已承诺购买近 100 万吨农作物，我们 将在今年 9 月开始收获," 联合大豆委员会主任 Jerry Slocum, 和密西西比州农民, 告诉 CNBC。
"In the last week and a half, the Chinese have committed to buy nearly a million metric tons of crop we'll start harvesting this September," Jerry Slocum, director of the United Soybean Board and a Mississippi farmer, told CNBC.
"So we're seeing the agreement that the two presidents made, we're seeing it come to fruition," Slocum said. But he didn't expect to get new orders on Tuesday, noting "there的 still some trepidation about it."
Slocum 还在周二的 活动, 中强调了他的五代家庭农场的 作物轮作和其他保护土壤质量的努力。
Slocum also presented during Tuesday的 event, emphasizing his five-generation family farm的 crop rotation and other efforts to preserve soil quality.
美国中心地带中国协会上周派代表团前往河南省郑州和北京参加农业圆桌会议。
The US Heartland China Association brought a delegation to Zhengzhou in Henan province as well as Beijing last week for an agricultural roundtable.
Agriculture is "not as big a trade as it was in 2019 when it dropped off considerably," he said.
尽管乐观,，美国大豆可能不会很快涌回中国。
Despite the optimism, U.S. soybeans likely won't be flooding back into China anytime soon.
Sutter said he expected export volumes to hover around 25 million to 30 million metric tons for the next year or two, before potentially climbing toward 40 million metric tons in subsequent years.
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