{"id":19796,"date":"2018-10-25T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19796"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:22:42","slug":"china-wants-to-stop-buying-american-soybeans-entirely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19796","title":{"rendered":"China wants to stop buying American soybeans entirely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>First, Beijing slapped tariffs on American soybeans. Now, it wants to wean its farmers off them altogether.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">China has been facing a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/01\/economy\/china-soybeans-trade-war\/index.html\">soybean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/01\/economy\/china-soybeans-trade-war\/index.html\"><\/a>shortage<\/a> after it put a <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/06\/news\/economy\/us-china-trade-war-tariffs\/index.html\">new 25% tariff<\/a> on importing them from the United States in July, part of the escalating trade war between the two countries.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">China is <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/07\/news\/economy\/trade-china-tariffs-impact\/index.html\">the world&#8217;s biggest buyer of soybeans<\/a>, using them as a protein-rich feed for livestock such as pigs and chickens. More than a third of its supply comes from the United States. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)First, Beijing slapped tariffs on American soybeans. Now, it wants to wean its farmers off them altogether.China has been facing a potential soybean shortage after it put a new 25% tariff on importing them from the United States in July, part of the escalating trade war between the two countries.China is the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}