China has agreed on a protocol to allow imports of U.S. rice, according to a statement released on Thursday [20 July 2017] by a Chinese delegate to the first China-U.S. Comprehensive Economic Dialogue (CED) in Washington, D.C.. The U.S. can begin shipping rice to China for the first time, after China completes an audit of
US beef returns to Chinese dining tables where appetite for the meat has been growing rapidly, but its prohibitive pricing might hamper its efforts to gain market share in a country where many people don’t know the difference between a ribeye and a sirloin…Full Article: China Daily July 2017 Key Points According to the head
U.S. Oregon State Governor Kate Brown signed a resolution on Wednesday [5 July 2017] to advance economic and trade ties with China. While non-binding itself, the resolution makes Oregon the first U.S. state that encourages continued collaboration with China for trade and economic development…Full Article: ECNS.cn July 2017 Key Point In 2016, according the US
Foshan Dingliang aims to be a key player after sending its first batch of seedlings to the competitive U.S. marketplace. Weng Minqiang has to get the temperature and humidity just right for his butterfly orchid seedlings. Environmental conditions inside his greenhouse complex in Foshan’s Shunde district of Guangdong province are crucial to meet export regulations
Shenzhen-based drone maker DJI Innovation Technology signed a memorandum of understanding with Dow AgroSciences on Tuesday [27 June 2017] to work on the research and application of crop protection drones and technology…Full Article: China Daily June 2017 Key Point As a result of the MoU, both companies will conduct joint pesticide application experiments on rice
China’s major e-commerce platforms are racing to be the first to put US beef under their online sales portfolio, with the arrival of the first commercial shipment of the meat and its products to China due over the weekend, marking the end of a 14-year import ban. Womai.com, the online platform run by the country’s
Following through on a pledge to support American employment, online retailer Alibaba Group Holding is teaming up with two U.S.-based food companies to sell in the Chinese market…Full Article: Nikkei Asian Review June 2017 Key Point In June 2017, during the Gateway business conference in Detroit, Alibaba Group (Tmall) signed Memorandum of Understanding agreements with
A chartered plane with 1,012 American boars aboard arrived in central China’s Hunan Province on Sunday [18 June 2017], the second time for the province to import breeding swine from the United States. The plane departed from Chicago. The boars will be quarantined for 45 days before they are distributed to pig farms in the
Direct cargo flights from America, run by retail giant Amazon, have arrived in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province. The planes, which were carrying nearly 1,000 sorts of products including food, clothes and household appliances ordered from Chinese buyers, flew from New York, Chicago and Los Angels to the Chinese transportation hub…Full Article: ECNS.cn
U.S. beef exports are set to resume as part of the Sino-U.S. economic cooperation 100-day action plan unveiled in mid-May. Chinese Vice-Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao disclosed that China plans to resume imports of U.S. beef by July 16, exactly 100 days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida…Full Article: ECNS.cn