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The U.S.-China Agricultural Trade Relationship: Where Does it Go from Here?

2025 AAEA annual meeting organized symposium

The 2025 AAEA Annual Meeting Organized Symposium, “The U.S.-China Agricultural Trade Relationship:  Where Does it Go from Here?” will look at the U.S.-China agricultural trade relationship has been through ups and downs since China joined the WTO in 2001. China became the number one agricultural importer globally and also for U.S. producers, but then reduced procurement from the U.S. during the 2018-2019 trade tensions only to shoot back up again in 2020-2022, but has tapered off since then as China has procured more from other countries. This session brings specialists in agricultural trade with China from government, academia, and industry to review the trade relationship over the last two decades and discuss possible future scenarios.

Panelists in this session:

  • Seth Meyer, USDA, Office of the Chief Economist
  • Jason Grant, Virginia Tech
  • Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University
  • Bryan Lohmar, California Polytechnic State University. San Luis Obispo

This session will take place on July 29 from 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm in the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in the Directors Row H room.

If you are interested in attending the 2025 AAEA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, please send a completed complimentary media registration to Allison Ware in the AAEA Business Office. You can also learn more on our Annual Meeting Media Kit page or view the entire AAEA programmed schedule.

ABOUT AAEA: Established in 1910, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is the leading professional association for agricultural and applied economists, with 2,500 members in more than 60 countries. Members of the AAEA work in academic or government institutions as well as in industry and not-for-profit organizations, and engage in a variety of research, teaching, and outreach activities in the areas of agriculture, the environment, food, health, and international development. The AAEA publishes three journals, the Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (an open access journal), the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, as well as the online magazine Choices and the online open access publication series Applied Economics Teaching Resources. To learn more, visit www.aaea.org.

Contact: Allison Ware
Senior Communications & Membership Manager 
(414) 918-3190
Email: aware@aaea.org