date:May 12, 2014
alth of China's soybean sector has deteriorated. Crushing margins in China, which takes 60 percent of the soybeans traded in the world, indicate processors are losing 500-600 yuan a metric ton of soybeans, compared with a 600 yuan profit in the fourth quarter of 2013 during peak consumption.
But even with these obstacles it is impossible for trading houses like Marubeni to ignore China, the world's top buyer of everything from soybeans to copper.
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