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What do the EU and USA do? Import more soybeans for their growing livestock industry. No penalties for anything, only rewards.
by superpermutat0r 7y ago
What do the EU and USA do? Import more soybeans for their growing livestock industry. No penalties for anything, only rewards.
- pridkett 7y ago79% of Brazilian soybean exports go to China. Very very little goes to the US as it’s a net exporter (by a significant margin). Source: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/bra/show/1201/2017/ https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/bra/show...
- superpermutat0r 7y agoGood correction, I meant beef, it's linked. Although USA does seem to avoid Brazilian soybean and beef.
- ajross 7y agoBecause like soya, the USA is a huge beef producer domestically.
- pridkett 7y agoThanks for the clarification. This led me down a fun rabbit hole of understanding Brazilian exports. I would not have guessed that Lebanon and Saudi Arabia were the third and fourth largest importers of Brazilian beef after Chile and the Netherlands.
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- hanniabu 7y agoHow is the USA expected to do anything when the same thing happens here?