Trade War with China

Equation said:

I don't know jack about farming but you don't know jack about business, or even English. You think you didn't put down Brazilian farmers? You just did in the comment that I quoted. There is a picture of a handful of Brazilian beans. Who the hell asked you what the quality of those beans were and how they compared to American beans? Do you go on the street and start picking out people's problems as you see them? What compelled you to "pick out" their issues? That's a handful of beans with more buyers than American beans and that's all you need to know.

And you don't know business either because quality is not an issue if they're flying off the shelves, now is it? It's a completely moot point because Chinese people, the biggest consumer of soybeans in the world, don't care. The facts on the ground are that Chinese people are dumping US beans for Brazilian and nobody needs or asked for your desperation rant on how good American soybeans are. We don't care; we want Brazilian. Read the English.

You wanna at least sound like a big guy? Say you wish the Brazilian farmers a bountiful upcoming harvest, the Chinese a happy new year, and congratulate the boon in Chinese-Brazilian business relations. You might as well, because complaining like a little man won't do you any good. That's for sure.

And my name is Equation. Don't call me any other name because you don't know me like that.

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China's foreign trade rose 9.7 percent year on year to a historic high of 30.51 trillion yuan (about 4.5 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2018, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Monday.

The value was 2.7 trillion yuan higher than that of 2017, according to the GAC.

"China effectively tackled changes of the external environment last year, and the foreign trade maintained stable and positive growth, reaching a historic high in import and export volume," GAC spokesman Li Kuiwen told a press conference.

Exports rose 7.1 percent year on year to 16.42 trillion yuan last year, while imports grew 12.9 percent to 14.09 trillion yuan, resulting in a trade surplus of 2.33 trillion yuan, which narrowed by 18.3 percent.

Exports and imports of products under the general trade category surged 12.5 percent year on year to 17.64 trillion yuan, accounting for 57.8 percent of the total foreign trade, 1.4 percentage points higher than 2017.

China's trade with the European Union, the United States and the ASEAN countries increased 7.9 percent, 5.7 percent and 11.2 percent, respectively, with their combined trade volume accounting for 41.2 percent of China's total foreign trade.

Trade with countries along the Belt and Road registered faster-than-average growth, with the trade volume standing at 8.37 trillion yuan, up 13.3 percent year on year.

"Trade cooperation with Belt and Road countries has become new driving force of China's foreign trade development," said Li.

Private enterprises played a bigger role, accounting for 39.7 percent of the total foreign trade, up 1.1 percentage points compared with 2017.

"Private enterprises contributed more than half to China's foreign trade growth in 2018, a bright spot of China's foreign trade development," said the spokesman.

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Equation said:

I don't know jack about farming but you don't know jack about business, or even English. You think you didn't put down Brazilian farmers? You just did in the comment that I quoted. There is a picture of a handful of Brazilian beans. Who the hell asked you what the quality of those beans were and how they compared to American beans? Do you go on the street and start picking out people's problems as you see them? What compelled you to "pick out" their issues? That's a handful of beans with more buyers than American beans and that's all you need to know.

And you don't know business either because quality is not an issue if they're flying off the shelves, now is it? It's a completely moot point because Chinese people, the biggest consumer of soybeans in the world, don't care. The facts on the ground are that Chinese people are dumping US beans for Brazilian and nobody needs or asked for your desperation rant on how good American soybeans are. We don't care; we want Brazilian. Read the English.

You wanna at least sound like a big guy? Say you wish the Brazilian farmers a bountiful upcoming harvest, the Chinese a happy new year, and congratulate the boon in Chinese-Brazilian business relations. You might as well, because complaining like a little man won't do you any good. That's for sure.

And my name is Equation. Don't call me any other name because you don't know me like that.

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Air Force Brat said:

Actually I do know you Byron, because of a very nice PM you once sent me Bub, and sorry, your name is NOT Equation, that's kinda something you made up, like the rest your story here....

I most certainly did NOT put down any Brazilian, ever, but you like to make up stories, kind of a bully now aren't you.... sad

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Air Force Brat said:

Actually I do know you Byron, because of a very nice PM you once sent me Bub, and sorry, your name is NOT Equation, that's kinda something you made up, like the rest your story here....

I most certainly did NOT put down any Brazilian, ever, but you like to make up stories, kind of a bully now aren't you.... sad

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