date:Apr 23, 2013
Imports, which more than tripled from 2004 to 59.2 million metric tons in the year to Sept. 30, will probably fall to 58 million tons this year, according to the median of a Bloomberg survey of four crushers and three analysts in China.
Chinas 35 cases of H7N9 flu virus infections and 10 deaths are raising the specter of the 2003 global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed 774 people.
Imports of soybeans plunged 21 percent in the 2003-2004 marketing year and an outbreak of