Brazil plans to sell corn to China, the world’s largest food consumer, as officials from the Brazilian Agriculture Minister will be visiting Beijing this week, Xinhua News Agency reported. Brazilian Agriculture Minister Antonio Andrade told Xinhua that he expects China to lift its ban on imports of Brazilian beef and boost purchases of the South American country’s chicken, pork and corn…Full-text article: China Daily May 2013

Key point

China has never imported Brazilian corn

ChinaAg Comment

From January to October 2012, China imported 4.1 million MTs of corn, 99% of which was from the USA