“When they talk about a purchase commitment of some magnitude, they’re not talking about letting the purchases happen naturally, they’re talking about state-directed purchases,” said Craig Thorn, a partner at DTB Associates and a former official with the Foreign Agricultural Service of the USDA. That would mean the deal would “almost certainly concentrate on big-ticket commodities like soybeans and pork,” he said.
| Media Outlet | Wall Street Journal |
| Article Title | Stalled U.S.-China Trade Talks Raise Threat of Another Impasse |
| Publication Date | November 19, 2019 |
USMCA Update from Mark Sloan