U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) Washington was contemplating terminating some trade ties with China, including in relation to cooking oil.
“I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media.
“As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.”
China has sharply diminished U.S. soybean purchases, which Mr. Trump has referred to as a negotiation tactic. Mr. Trump stated this month he hopes to talk about soybeans with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping whereas additionally warning the U.S. could halt a big share of imports from China.
China is the world’s largest purchaser of soybeans, and in current months has sharply diminished purchases of U.S. soy in favour of sourcing from Brazil and Argentina amid tariff and trade disputes.
Mr. Trump has focused China with a cascade of tariff orders on billions of {dollars} of imported items that he says is aimed toward narrowing a large trade deficit, bringing again misplaced manufacturing and crippling the fentanyl trade.
Washington and Beijing have had strained ties for years, particularly with Mr. Trump in workplace. They have been at odds over points like trade tariffs, know-how, human rights, the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical issues akin to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Ukraine.
