October 15, 2025

The US government is reportedly considering "terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" in retaliation for China's action of not purchasing US soybeans, a move that could further escalate tensions in already fraught China-US trade relations. A Chinese expert said steep tariffs initiated by the US are to blame for the current state of bilateral relations, and that Washington's unreasonable restrictions and threats will not resolve problems but will only harm US farmers.

China is committing an "economically hostile act" by "purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers," the US president wrote in a Truth Social post, CNBC reported on Tuesday (US time).

Ending business with China in cooking oil and "other elements of trade" is possible forms of "retribution" that the US government may be weighing, he claimed, noting that "as an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don't need to purchase it from China," according to the US media report.

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