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Chinese food trade, imports, and agricultural investments
Nigeria's Seafood Sails Into China
Nigeria has secured zero-tariff access to China's 1.4 billion-consumer market for its seafood, signing a wild aquatic products protocol after nearly five years of talks. …
Forecast: If China Blockaded Taiwan, What Would Food Cost?
This has not happened. It is a scenario, and the numbers in it are assumptions we state openly rather than forecasts. But the chain from …
Research: One Country Holds Half the World's Grain Reserves
China holds 53% of the world's wheat, rice and maize reserves with 17% of its people. Meanwhile a Yemeni family pays $10.62 for a kilogramme …
Nigeria Misses China's Duty-Free Window
China threw open its market to African exporters with a sweeping zero-tariff policy, yet Nigeria was absent from the first wave of duty-free shipments. Analysts …
Snubbed by China, US Sorghum Turns to Africa
US sorghum exports to China, once the crop's biggest buyer, collapsed by about 97 per cent in the trade war, sinking prices below $3 a …
A Tomato Paste Glut Seeks Buyers
China's Xinjiang region built a tomato paste empire, then watched European demand collapse over forced-labour concerns. Left with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of unsold …
China Reopens Its Door to Canola
China has slashed tariffs that had shut Canadian canola out of its market, restoring access for roughly $4 billion of annual seed exports. The reset …
China Reopens the Fertiliser Tap
After an eight-month freeze that sent urea to four-year highs, China has reopened its export window, and India's June tender crashed about 50 per cent …
Fertiliser Prices Surge 2.4% in Early 2026 as Energy Costs, EU Carbon Rules, and China Export Curbs Squeeze Global Supply
Global fertiliser prices have jumped 2.4% in the first weeks of 2026, driven by surging natural gas costs, the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and …