Economic Coercion Australia’s trade minister is in China where a rapprochement in relations is underway. Beijing had earlier sought to punish Australia for Canberra demanding more information on the origins of COVID. Australia subsequently found other markets for the productions China intentionally stopped purchasing. Some argue this evidences the limitations of economic coercion. Though the G-7 has strongly criticized the use of economic coercion and created a so-called “coordination platform” to fight against it, technically it represents the heart of the West’s efforts to punish Russia for invading Ukraine. And Russia is proving the limited influence of such measures. Good for the Goose, Good for the Gand...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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