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China canceled 12,000 metric tons of United States pork shipments amid a high-stakes trade standoff between the superpowers, according to data released Thursday.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

mac rib is coming back

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hey, at least your gonna have cheap pork for a while America.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes! Bacon sandwiches on discount.

Oh wait, no they will just keep the price difference because they suck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are you guys talking about cheap pork? This is the opposite of that.

I just woke up but it seems obvious?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah I thought the point is more expensive pork since we're importing them from China. What are these guys saying and why are they getting upvoted?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is exports to China. They are they buyers and they cancelled the orders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Man, I had to read the linked sources to understand what was going on. How do you write all this and it doesn't even make sense.

https://apps.fas.usda.gov/export-sales/pork.htm

https://nppc.org/capital-update/capital-update-for-the-week-ending-march-21-2025/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The title maybe makes it sound like china was buying pork from the US. Maybe since usually it’s a buyer that would cancel an order (as a seller would usually sell to anyone willing to pay the market price.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

? Why would they lower prices after people have already shown they're willing to pay what's posted?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Well it's a free market right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

All of the bacon and booze not exported, will help swallow down the misery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had no idea our pork comes from china. Good thing I don't eat red meat anymore

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

These are pork exports to China

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn’t pork considered white meat?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some cuts of pork are considered white under the culinary definition, but all pork is considered red meat in nutritional studies.

From Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Did not know that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Read enough to note the bias.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Don't feel sad! With new Nabisco Pork toe crops, every day is going to be !Great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Pigs fed plastic oh darn..I can't believed they eat our meat