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Originally Posted by Catfish
We are currently looking for soy bean recipes, since it looks as we have to eat 10 kilograms per week and person soon  |
No. Chinese demand is affected from boycotts and/or tariffs and so the Chinese evade to South American producers. This leaves European demand - that already existed anyway - to look at the US producers.
Thats why I expected little problem over this part of the "deal" even if the EU cannot make European states or private companies buying soy beans. They will do it all by themselves, voluntarily, because the Chinese occupy the other producers in the world.
With LNG, its not that bad, too, just that American LNG is priced non-competitively, it is too expensive. But to diversify European energy imports by opening more LNG terminals both in the US and Europe will put Gazprom under pressure, and growing trade between the US producers and European customers will increase the trade volkume and thus put prices under pressure, and so the international price hierarchy could drop there in general, with benefits for the US and Europe as well. We should not allow too huge shares of the energy mix for Europe being delivered by just Russia - and not by just America as well. In fact, Germany is less dependent on both than many other European states, having diversified its energy imports amongst over two dozen nations. The often quoted dependency on Russian gas may exist for real - but its not necessarily Germany being affected severly by this. Other EU states are affected by this dependency far stronger.
Typically, Trump does not mention these, he always attacks just Germany. Over fake news accusations for the most.