China won’t raise grain import quotas for US, senior Beijing official says

BEIJING -- China will not increase its annual global import quotas for certain grains due to a phase one trade deal with the US, a senior Chinese agriculture official has been quoted as saying.

China's promise to expand imports of American agriculture products as part of the phase one trade deal has sparked speculation that the nation may adjust or cancel its global quota for corn in order to meet a target for imports from the US.

However, Han Jun, a member of the trade negotiation team and Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, denied those suspicions at a conference in Beijing, according to a report in Caixin, saying: "They are quotas for the whole world. We will not change them just for one country."

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