Le 8 juillet, un rapport de Bloomberg américain a déclaré que la Chine avait augmenté les importations de blé américain et les futures hausses des prix du blé américain, il en va de même pour les prix des contrats à terme sur le soja et le maïs.

Le Département de l'agriculture des États-Unis a déclaré que l'Amérique avait exporté une quantité totale de 840,000 tonnes de blé tendre rouge d'hiver vers la Chine d'ici fin mai et jusqu'au 3 juillet, le montant expédié a atteint 360,000 tonnes; le montant total des ventes et le montant expédié entre le 1er et le 27 juin ont atteint 1,830,000 tonnes qui est 5 périodes des années précédentes. Greg Grandir, director of Agriculture Department of American Archer Financial Service Inc said in a telephone interview that American wheat is more competitive in China as its price is almost the lowest in this quarter.

On the morning of 8th, the wheat delivery price of September at Chicago Stock Exchange rose by 0.6% to USD 6.6425/bushel. Before that, wheat future price once fell to USD 6.5225 on July 2nd, which is the lowest since 2012 June.

Shanghai JC Intelligence Co. Ltd said that within the import quota for Chinese agricultural products, American wheat price is 2100 yuan/ton while the domestic wheat price is 2400 yuan/ton. Besides, the quality of local agricultural products cannot be ensured and therefore it is hard for them to compete with imported products.

In the view of Greg Grow, in the past three days there was heavy rain from Arkansas to Ohio. People are worried that the crops may have been harmed and farmers may reduce the plantation area of soybean and this may lead to the price increase of wheat and soybean. Now it’s too late for crop rotation and the delay of wheat harvest has affected the plantation of soybean. The delivery price of soybean future for November rises by 0.7%, pour 12.3725 USD/bushel; and the corn’s future price for December also rises by 1.4%, pour 4.9825 USD/bushel.