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A new soybean crushing plant in Illinois will help reduce U.S. farmers' reliance on Chinese demand, attendees at Incobrasa's ribbon-cutting ceremony said on Monday. 

The U.S. Trade Representative is proposing tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on a wide range of imports from 60 economies, on the grounds that they’ve failed to block imports of goods produced using forced labor. 

The Trump administration is lowering tariffs on farm equipment and offering reduced duty rates to foreign manufacturers that build with American metal. 

A flurry of high-profile events are on tap this week as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks on Capitol Hill, U.S. officials talk trade in India and Senate work on a new farm bill kicks into high gear. 

Twenty House Republicans are calling upon the Trump administration to take a hard line with Mexico ahead of a July review of the North American trade pact, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held the first of two bilateral meetings Thursday scheduled during Trump’s state visit to Beijing, in which the pair discussed increasing China’s agricultural imports. 

The farm bill has been teed up for a House vote with a stand-alone E15 bill in tow.