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China quietly ends tariff exemption application process for US ag imports

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Traders are scrambling to interpret Beijing's move to stop offering tariff exemptions on a long list of US farm products.
Last week, an online portal operated by China's finance ministry (MoF) began displaying a pop-up window indicating that (USDA):

From August 1, it will stop accepting application...