When Beijing announced it was exempting 16 U.S. goods from retaliatory tariffs, ...
CHICAGO - When Beijing announced it was exempting 16 U.S. goods from retaliatory tariffs, Chinese firms hurried to call Proliant Dairy Ingredients in the heart of American farm country.
While seen as a goodwill gesture ahead of talks to end the U.S.-China trade war, the exemption from a 25% retaliatory tariff imposed last year is also a means for China to get supplies it needs. Whey permeate provides nutrients that can help baby pigs grow up faster and healthier as the world’s largest pork consumer fights African swine fever, a fatal hog disease.
“If we’ve lost half of the pigs in China but we can get them to double the amount of permeate that they’re using, we can potentially keep the same volume demand as we had before,” Sevilla said.Tom Vilsack, chief executive of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, also touted permeate and whey to Chinese officials as tools to recover from the outbreak when he visited China shortly before the exemptions were announced.
As much as 85% of U.S. permeate is used to feed the world’s piglets, contributing to $5.6 billion in total U.S. dairy exports, according to suppliers. But exports of U.S. permeate to China have declined to less than 10% of production from about 30% before the trade war, suppliers said. Prices for U.S. permeate have halved to about 10 cents a pound because of the disease and trade war, said Richard Bradfield, a vice president for Missouri-based animal-feed company International Ingredient Corporation.
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