President Donald Trump offered high hopes for the US agricultural sector on Friday during a briefing on the latest negotiations with the Chinese- claiming billions and billions of dollars worth of purchases are on the way from the Chinese, based on the phase one trade deal that he unveiled.
The President said of the deal itself "We have come to a deal, pretty much, subject to getting it written. It’ll take probably three weeks, four weeks, or five weeks." The areas impacted include intellectual property, finances and agriculture.
Regarding Agriculture- here is the what the President said of the deal- including the point where he called uoin Trade Ambassador Robert Lighthizer for clarification of some of the points:
"A tremendous deal for the farmers. A purchase of — from 40 to 50 billion dollars’ worth of agricultural products. To show you how big that is, that would be two and a half, three times what China had purchased at its highest point thus far. So, they were purchasing $16 or $17 billion at the highest point, and that’ll be brought up to $40 billion to $50 billion. So I’d suggest the farmers have to go and immediately buy more land and get bigger tractors. They’ll be available at John Deere and a lot of other great distributors.
"But we’re taking the purchase of agricultural products from $40 to $50 billion, meaning in that neighborhood — from 40 to 50, approximately, billion. And what they’ve been doing now, I believe, is about $8 billion, right? Eight — right now it’s eight.
"The other thing I will say is, over the last two weeks, a lot of purchases have started going back to our farmers. And you’ve been doing a lot of business with us, which we appreciate very much. But it really started a few weeks ago, but they intend to go up, ultimately, once the agreement is signed, from $40 to $50 billion. And, really, from — that was from a base of probably $16 billion, and right now it’s $8 billion. And the $8 billion was lower than $8 billion. They got up to $8 billion because they’ve been purchasing quite a bit over the last couple of weeks.
Click here to see more...