date:Apr 09, 2014
A report issued by an attache of the US Department of Agriculture estimated China's 2013/14 corn imports at 4 million tonnes, below the USDA's last official forecast of 5 million. The report cited biotech-related trade disruptions.
Since November 2013, China has rejected over 900,000 (metric) tons of US corn and over 90,000 tons of US DDGS (dried distillers grains) imports due to detections of biotech corn variety MIR 162, said the attache's report, which was dated April 2 and released on Mond