july the sixth the country retaliated with counter tariffs on the same day now that move will impact a slew of american agricultural products including soybeans and it s not just a blip on the radar sending soybeans to china is worth fourteen billion dollars a year to the united states. oh in villa easy on a is soybean country raymond checks night a says his crop is coming along well this year. is we were really looking at soybean but if the trade spat between the united states and china doesn t tend soon his market is gone six night just says he could lose more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars thanks to the twenty five percent china slapped on u.s. imports in response to trump s tariffs. i don t know if we realize from the start how big of a buyer drona was. you were talking about the imbalance of trade but this was a really big. big big deal. china is louisiana s biggest export