As part of a national push to double US exports in the next five years, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has opened an agricultural trade office in Shenyang, a trade hub in northwest China’s Liaoning province.
The move recognises China as a vital market for US agricultural products, said US Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack in a news release.
“This new office will help exporters take advantage of rising per capita incomes and steady economic growth in the region by raising the profile of American agricultural and food products.”
With trade offices already in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu, the Shenyang office will assist in the Obama administration’s National Export Initiative, which aims to double US exports in the next five years.
China is the second largest market for US agricultural exports and imported roughly US$13bn worth of agricultural products in the 2009 fiscal year.
It also signals a shift in focus to China’s tier two and three cities, away from highly-contested markets in the country’s tier one cities.
The USDA has a total of 102 trade offices in 82 countries for the purpose of marketing and promoting US agricultural exports.
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