USA and China revive agricultural dialog

Greenhouses make it possible: farmers in Gansu province harvest tomatoes in January. Now, China and the USA have resumed agricultural dialogue.

After a long hiatus, the US and China have returned to talks at the ministerial level on possible agricultural trade cooperation. In a further signal of growing willingness to engage in dialogue, they revived a bilateral agricultural committee suspended since 2015.

After an eight-year hiatus, the USA and China have resumed their bilateral agricultural dialogue in the China-US Joint Committee on Cooperation in Agriculture (JCCA). According to the business magazine Caixin, the two agriculture ministers, Tang Renjian and Tom Vilsack, met in Washington. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture announced that it would maintain the dialogue and „ensure the stable operation of this mechanism.“ The two sides held „in-depth and open“ talks on green agriculture, food security and trade facilitation.

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