Trump unveils $12B farm assist package deal amid China commerce negotiations

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President Donald Trump is poised to roll out a $12 billion farm assist package deal to assist farmers, based on the White Home.

The help package deal will present as much as $11 billion towards the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s (USDA) new Farmer Bridge Help Program, which is designed to offer single funds to row crop farmers, whereas the remaining $1 billion will go to farmers whose crops don't qualify for this system.

Additional particulars can be hashed out because the USDA continues to judge market situations, based on the White Home.

The president is anticipated to unveil the brand new assist package deal at a Monday roundtable on the White Home. These anticipated to look on the occasion embody Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent , Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, in addition to corn, soybean, rice and different forms of farmers.

These anticipated to look on the occasion embody Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

The announcement comes because the U.S. and China have gone head-to-head on trade negotiations in 2025, and after China reigned in its soybean purchases from the U.S. amid ongoing tariff negotiations between Beijing and Washington, D.C.

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Nonetheless, Trump and Chinese language President Xi Jinping met in South Korea in October, the place the 2 hashed out a sequence of agreements regarding commerce. Particularly, Trump stated he agreed to chop tariffs on Chinese language imports by 10% — decreasing the speed from 57% to 47% — as a result of China stated it will cooperate with the U.S. on addressing the U.S. fentanyl disaster.

Since these talks, China has began to spice up its purchases of soybeans once more. China bought at the very least 840,000 metric tons of soybeans for supply in December and January, Reuters reported in November. That buy marked the most important cargo since at the very least January, Reuters reported.

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese language President Xi Jinping forward of a bilateral assembly at Gimhae Air Base on October 30, 2025 in Busan, South Korea. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)

In the meantime, Bessent stated that China to this point is upholding its finish of the discount on the commerce deal, together with provisions to purchase 12 million tons of soybeans by the top of February 2026.

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"China is on observe to hold each a part of the deal," Bessent stated at The New York Instances Dealbook Summit Wednesday.

Trump helps the agriculture trade by "negotiating new commerce offers to open new export markets for our farmers and boosting the farm security web for the primary time in a decade," White Home spokeswoman Anna Kelly stated in a Monday assertion to Fox Information Digital.

A mix harvester throughout a soybean harvest at a farm in Harvard, Illinois, Oct. 17, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg/Getty Pictures)

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This isn’t the primary time Trump has issued an assist package deal to farmers. When Trump’s first administration rolled out tariffs, China issued their very own retaliatory tariffs that value the federal authorities billions of {dollars} in authorities assist to farmers.