President Donald Trump accused China on Tuesday of "purposefully" halting U.S. soybean purchases, calling the move an “economically hostile act” and threatening to cut trade ties over cooking oil and other goods.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed Beijing is “causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers” by deliberately avoiding American crops during harvest season. “We can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves,” he said. “We don’t need to purchase it from China.” Advertisement

The accusation lands as China, once the top buyer of U.S. soybeans, has not booked a single purchase this season—sending prices into a tailspin and rattling farmers across the Midwest. The halt resembles earlier tactics by Beijing, which used rare earth mineral exports as leverage during prior trade disputes.

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