The issue of Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland has become a hot button one in recent years, and the Trump administration has announced a new plan that addresses this and other issues related to agricultural security.

China's agricultural imports from the United States have seen a decline in recent months, a direct consequence of ongoing trade disputes and resulting tariffs. Despite trade talks in recent months, many additional tariffs on U.S. farm products remain in place, pushing Beijing to diversify its sourcing. This

Data from China's Customs shows China's agricultural imports from the United States have more than halved in recent months, a dramatic decline that follows escalating tariff disputes between the world's two largest economies.

While the Chinese government and the Trump administration have recently tried to cool down trade tensions, tariffs on U.S. agricultural products are still in effect, and Beijing's efforts to secure alternative sources continue.

As China-EU trade tensions intensify, with a number of trade remedy cases and WTO challenges to those cases taking place in both directions, the latest development is an EU challenge to China's anti-subsidy investigation on EU dairy products.

Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce announced the sampled companies for the anti-dumping investigation on pork and related products from the European Union.

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce announced that it will launch an anti-dumping investigation on pork and pig by-products from the European Union, potentially hurting Spanish exports the most.