US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testifies during a US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on 2026 funding priorities, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Dec. 9, 2025.
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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday told a Senate committee that the deadline for China to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans from American farmers had effectively been extended past the end of December until the end of the “growing season.”
Greer’s comment came on the heels of a report by NBC News showing that the pace of China’s purchase of soybeans in recent weeks, after a months-long boycott of buying, was well short of reaching 12 million metric tons by the end of the year.
The trade representative said that only about 3 million metric tons of soybeans have been bought by China since the end of October.
He said there was a “discrepancy” in what the White House has described as the Dec. 31, and the actual deadline for the purchases to be completed.
“It is for this growing season, so, thank you for highlighting that,” Greer said.
‘”We’ve heard from a couple farmers, they wanted to know about that discrepancy and it is a discrepancy, it’s through the growing season,” he said.
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