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.

The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing today on "The Danger China Poses to American Agriculture," with testimony from both government and private sector witnesses.

At a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing today, several Senators and witnesses discussed the issue of Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland, noting that the data was clear that this type of investment was fairly limited at the moment (0.03% of all U.S. agricultural land), but nonetheless