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Central America and the Caribbean, with their close geographical and economic ties to the United States, have always been an important market for U.S. agricultural exports.

On February 1, 2015, China issued a major policy document on agriculture calling for a coordinated response to rising production costs and internationally uncompetitive prices.

In the past decade, one of the most apparent trends agricultural trade patterns has been the growth in agricultural trade between developing countries or so-called “South-South trade.”

China produced and consumed more than half of the world’s pork supply in 2014.

China continued to dominate the global oilseeds market in MY13/14, especially in soybeans where it took 65 percent of total world exports, and 30 percent of total U.S. soybean production.

China is the world’s second largest poultry producer, and a major destination for U.S. poultry.