中美农业谈判的一些细节。

Top U.S. Ags Trade Negotiator Says China `Bristles’ in Talks

Doud pushing China to open its grains market to freer imports

China unwilling to open corn, rice, wheat markets, Doud says

By?Michael Hirtzer

(Bloomberg) –?

China is reluctant to relinquish control over its domestic grain stockpiles, an issue that has been a sticking point in a broader U.S.-China trade deal, according to America’s top agricultural trade negotiator.

China is unwilling to open its corn, rice and wheat markets to broader market forces that would allow for freer imports,?Gregg Doud, the chief agriculture negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative, said at an industry conference in Kansas on Thursday. China subsidizes its domestic corn and rice growers, which unfairly boosts supplies and limits imports, he said.

In recent negotiations, Han Jun, China’s vice agriculture minister, had pushed back at the U.S. proposal for China to open its grains market, Doud said.

“I had this conversation with Han Jun. I said, ‘Look, our point is the fact that China has to begin to expose itself to the vagaries of supply and demand in the marketplace in agriculture. You’ve got to reduce your domestic supports, you’ve got to have your tariff-rate quotas work in a way that this exposes you to the marketplace,” Doud said.

‘It Shocked Me’

“From the U.S. perspective, maybe every two or three ye