Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub

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Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Wait, we’ve been importing cooking oil from China? 🤦

We are surrounded by government-subsidized corn, soy, and other vegetable oil producing crops. Why on earth would we need to import cooking oil from anywhere?

Because it’s cheaper from China.
How could it be? We grow it here. And we’ve already paid for it through subsidies. And buying it from China means we’d have to put it on a ship to get it here.
When your entire manufacturing process is run on the back of slaves, the product is cheap enough that the shipping cost doesn’t matter.