Trump accuses China of avoiding US soybean, threatens action

By Yasin Gungor

ISTANBUL (AA) - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused China of "purposefully" avoiding purchases of American soybeans and threatened to end trade on cooking oil and other goods in retaliation.

“I believe that China purposefully not buying our soybeans, and causing difficulty for our soybean farmers, is an economically hostile act," Trump wrote on his social media company Truth Social.

He said Washington weighing termination of business with Beijing over cooking oil and "other elements of trade, as retribution."

"As an example, we can easily produce cooking oil ourselves, we don't need to purchase it from China," he said.