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Maria Cantwell: “The soybean industry came to testify... they had been 60% of…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Discussion with Senator Maria Cantwell and former USTRs, Carla Hills and Susan Schwab

Published | Video Starts at 27:30

And when we had a hearing, which was great, the Finance Committee did hold a hearing, and the soybean industry came to testify. They had charts, they showed what happened in The soybean industry came to testify... they had been 60% of the market in China, and they fell to... 20 or 30%, like cut in half. And today they're only back to 50. So they never returned. They never returned. And if I could go to the White House and tell the president anything, I would tell him, the world has dramatically changed since the last time you had an administration. (27:30–27:49)

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Asserts that the U.S. soybean market share in China fell from 60% to 20-30% and is now only back to 50%.

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