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China's soybean imports fall 7.7% in September from a year earlier

Global Published 14 October 2026, 11:52 · archived 14 Oct 2026

BEIJING: China, the world’s largest soy buyer, imported 11.88 million metric tons of soybeans in September, down 7.7% from the same month last year, data from the General Administration of Customs of China showed. Soybean imports in September fell from 12.87 million tons a year earlier and were down 2.1% from 12.14 million tons in August. From January to September, soybean arrivals in the world’s biggest buyer totalled 86.08 million tons, the data showed. The 7.7% fall from last year mainly reflected a high base a year earlier, when Chinese buyers stepped up purchases of South American soybean...

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