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China cancels 12,000 metric tons of US pork shipments
by Filip Timotija - 04/24/25 4:32 PM EThttps://thehill.com/policy/international/5266321-china-cancels-us-pork-ships/
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1. China has more agricultural resources than it needs, & thus such pork orders from USA are mainly to keep its factories running in producing canned pork or reprocessed air flown fresh meats for foreign markets, as well as to keep its workers employed & earn revenue.
It also has the aluminum mineral to be smelted into producing cans for such foods, at low costs as its workers are lowly paid & are on 9-9-6 sweatshop conditions.
With such a cut in its pork imports from USA, the ones whom will suffer will be the China economy, workers & export revenues. It may attempt to buy pork from other nations, but just recently, most of such nations woke up to the realities that they too can do what China is doing & might as well uplift their own economy & jobs.
2. While opposition political parties & those whom are against PrezTrump will use such news for political mileage to blame him rather than to find solutions to alleviate the agricultural sector, all US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick needs to do is to help the agricultural sector such as pork farmers, is to source out American manufacturers in processing air flown meats & canned foods, to double their production output in the meantime.
What China can do, so too Americans. More so when the flow of American pork that is processed in China will be either stopped or become more expensive. Thus it would be better for American manufacturers to produce such meats to the American People on their own of a 300 million population with better purchasing power than the rest of the World, & export any excess to the World with a population of at least 5 Billion market size that consumes pork.
While the cost of production of Aluminum cans in USA are high, with some smelters closing down operations & thus needs additional import of aluminum, but with the high tariffs imposed, the cost of American labor is justified for American profits on American soil than to rely on now expensive imports & thus create jobs for the American People, whom needs to eat too.
