The Chinese grain delegation will visit the United States in September (8.18)

OA show ('918 '); the Chinese government grain delegation plans to visit the United States in early September, when the United States Senate will discuss and vote on the permanent normal relations bill for China A spokesman for the American wheat Association said: the Chinese delegation is expected to visit the United States from September 4 to 8 The delegation will meet with USDA officials and trade groups to learn about us grain production technology and market policy, and hope to visit us farms and meet with trade companies It is China's grain administration, not individual buyers, that has an impact on how much wheat China imports and from which countries The U.S Senate plans to start a five-day discussion on September 5 and vote on September 10 The house of Representatives passed the resolution in May Following the House vote, the Senate did not vote immediately as expected, but postponed it to September The latest purchase of U.S wheat by China's national grain, oil and food organization, a government grain buyer, was in February COFCO will no longer buy US wheat until the US House of Representatives votes on the PNTR bill Recently, Chinese individual buyers have purchased 28000 tons of American wheat However, these did not appear in the USDA's weekly export sales report USDA predicts that China will import 3.5 million tons of wheat in 2000 / 2001, an increase of 1 million tons compared with 1999 / 2000, due to China's small domestic production this year USDA officials in Beijing estimate that China imported 1.5 million tons of wheat from the United States in 2000 / 01 MR2 (author:)