Brazil’s slow soybean harvest means that supplies are not reaching buyers as quickly as they might have hoped. But China, the destination for more than 70% of Brazil’s annual soy exports, does not appear concerned.

China's suspension earlier this month of Brazilian soybean exports from five companies after cargoes did not meet plant health requirements will last two months, a top Brazilian agriculture official told Reuters on Friday.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday referred to China, India, and Brazil as “tremendous tariff-makers” and said that his administration would no longer tolerate such practices, reiterating his commitment to putting “America First.

Its technical foundations for a green-production boom may be sound, but Brazil’s economic travails are an obstacle. The high cost of finance is putting off bigger investments in capital-intensive projects. The real was the world’s worst-performing major currency last year, losing more than 20% of its value against the dollar.

Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced India, China, and Brazil as "tremendous tariff-maker(s)" and said his government would not allow the three to do this, declaring, "... we're not going to let that

China’s soybean imports from the United States dropped five percent in 2024 from the previous year. Reuters says, “U.S. soybean imports were replaced in the Chinese market by shipments from Brazil and

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Brazil’s slow soybean harvest means that supplies are not reaching buyers as quickly as they might have hoped.

As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year’s COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations in what will be a fierce dispute over who will pay for the global transition to cleaner energy sources.

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Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. From 2021 to 2023, she was Senior Adviser for China at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She is the author of The World According to China.