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Oh pleasse...

Chinese food and agricultural imports in the US amount to $4.2 billion (2006). That's peanut compared to the overall US market.

http://www.opencrs.com/document/RL34080

The revenue of Archer-Daniels-Midland alone was 41.35B last year.

It's not like the US or anyone for that matter is going to starve if China stop exporting. China is barely self-sufficient for food.

by Francois in Paris on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 at 06:31:49 PM EST
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I didn't say people would starve. I said it would have an inflationary effect.

I know you probably wouldn't notice that you pay $10/month more for food because of a devaluation of the dollar, but there are others who are more than a bit less immune to this.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 at 06:42:56 PM EST
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