File photo: Amazon.com logo Japan on August 8, 2016 at the Amazon Japan office fee building in Tokyo, Japan. Reuters / Kim Kyung-hoon (Reuters) – The Amazon.com company says thousands of Americans have banned overseas sales of seeds in the United States after receiving unwanted packages of seeds in their …
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US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 2020 Council for National Policy meeting in Arlington, Virginia, US, August 21, 2020. REUTERS / Tom Brenner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump in a Fox News interview on Sunday mentioned the opportunity to disconnect the US economy from China, a …
Read More »China, United States agree to hold trade talks, says Chinese Ministry of Commerce
FILE PHOTO: China’s Ministry of Commerce spokesman Gao Feng attended a news conference at the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing, China, June 19, 2018. REUTERS / Thomas Peter BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the United States have agreed to hold trade talks “in the coming days” to evaluate the progress …
Read More »Morning glories and mustard: America investigates unsolicited seed mystery
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The US Department of Agriculture has identified more than a dozen plant species ranging from morning glories to mustard in bags of unsolicited seeds that reach the mailboxes of thousands of Americans, mostly postmarked from China. Unsolicited seeds that arrived in the mail, reported by a U.S. …
Read More »China needs ‘explosive’ purchase to meet US agricultural import target.
BEIJING / CHICAGO (Reuters) – With nearly seven months to go, an ambitious target of $ 36.5 billion for Chinese imports of US agricultural products this year may not be out of reach, but it looks like a very big stretch. FILE PHOTO: Soybeans are harvested from a field at …
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