Trump on Wednesday reiterated plans to use some U.S. tariff revenues to aid farmers, while taking aim at his predecessor Joe Biden for not enforcing an earlier trade pact with Beijing that involved a step up in farm purchases. But "the U.S. has made zero sales to China in this new crop marketing year due to 20-percent retaliatory tariffs imposed by China in response to U.S. tariffs," ASA President Caleb Ragland said last week. The first Trump administration provided aid to farmers too as his previous trade war gutted exports to what had been a massive market for U.S. soybeans and pork, among other products.
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