These are fungible goods. There was previously a buyer for these soya beans before, and now they don't have any. America will just sell to them. You have to target something that is not fungible and of greater economic value.
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The calculus would be different if there were a severe shortage or surplus in the market, but there isn't. Look at the limited moves in the futures through all this. It's pretty balanced, as you would expect. Pork, on the other hand...
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So I guess China isn't going to buy this from the US...
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And someone else will. It's just a commodity. What makes one soya bean amazingly different from any other soya bean?
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