Sui-Lee Wee, China Opens Sorghum Inquiry as Tensions Worsen. New York Times, Feb 6, 2018.
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(a) "Sorghum is a type of grain that is mostly used in China to feed livestock. It is also used to make baijiu * * * More than three-quarters of the sorghum the United States exports goes to China, according to the US Grains Council, a grain export industry group.
"The United States exported about 4.8 million tons of sorghum, worth about $1 billion, to China in 2017, accounting for nearly all of China’s imports of the grain last year, according to Chinese customs data.
(b) in comparison: "China imported $14 billion worth of soybeans from the United States in 2016, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture.