China rejects shipments of genetically modified corn

The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 27 2013 | Ricardo Lopez

[gooblah]

China rejected two shipments -- almost 546,000 tons -- of U.S. dried distillers' grain, a corn byproduct, because it contained genetically modified material, state media reported Friday.

[TBP]

Dump it on them, from the air if need be.

[grania]

This is funny. Now can we have a trade war and keep Chinese crap out of the US?

[DonaldC]

Be nice to keep this GMO crap out of America as well.

[Born to Conserve]

If it’s getting turned in to ethanol, then what the hll difference does it make?

[SeminoleCounty]

Wonder how the Free Trade Communists, who blindly support Free Trade with Communist China (and unlabeling GMO food)...are gonna spin this....should be quite hysterical...

Getting popcorn ready....

[gundog]

Make whiskey with it....everybody’s happy.

[maine yankee]

Kinda strange.

Maybe retaliation for this;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-19/six-chinese-accused-of-stealing-genetically-modified-corn-1-.html

The indictments follow the arrest last week of Mo Hailong, director of international business at Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group Co. (002385), part of the Beijing-based DBN Group, who was accused of stealing trade secrets after he was found digging in a Iowa cornfield.

[1rudeboy]

Same as always . . . we’ll inform you (again) that we don’t have free trade with China.

[Flag_This]

Tell ‘em it’s chock full of melamine - they’ll snap it right up then.

[central_va]

Same as always . . . we’ll inform you (again) that we don’t have free trade with China.

Care to post which items we import from China that carry a duty?

[JRandomFreeper]

Distillers grains have already been used to make ethanol. The used grains are dried and used as cattle feed and for other things.

/johnny

[1rudeboy]

Gladly.

By Chapter, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States .

[PhiloBedo]

I thought the ChiComs were trying to steal GMO research seed from field in Nebraska. A couple were caught and jailed, recently.

[yarddog]

Bush, I think the elder one, banned imports from China North Industries who made some pretty neat guns, mostly copies of classic U.S. guns, mostly from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

Just a coincidence that they made guns. I absolutely despise the Bush’s. Not as much as I do Obama tho.

[SeminoleCounty]

Of course, Rude ain’t gonna explain how Communist China’s action itself is a tariff...a trade barrier.

Mmm...popcorn...

[1rudeboy]

Funny, how protectionists have never seen the Tariff Schedule of the United States, but the free-traders have.

[vetvetdoug]

China has suspended the importation of geoduck and oysters because their labs have found (2) organisms containing inorganic arsenic and PCB’s. Ironic, US inspectors cannot find it in any samples they have pulled over the past several weeks. China also will not allow beef from the US to be imported because (2) cases of BSE in over a million tested cattle have found to be positive. So, lets get this straight, we can't reproduce their test results but yet they can ship antibiotic contaminated shrimp, fish, dog food, and many other foodstuffs in great quantities yet when a minute problem is found in ours its cause for total blockage of US products. Rich.

[central_va]

The federal government raises revenue principally from income and social insurance taxes. State government revenue breaks down about equally between income taxes, ad-valorem taxes, and fees and business revenue. Local government revenue is about half ad-valorem taxes and half fees and business revenue. At the beginning of the 20th century governments at all levels in the United States raised almost all their revenue from ad-valorem taxes: tariffs, sales taxes, and property taxes.

Chart 3.24: Federal Revenue in 20th Century

Starting in World War I, after the passage of the federal income tax, federal revenue became increasingly dependent upon income taxes. After the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the income tax was augmented by social insurance taxes.

[central_va]

If you look at the TOTAL revenues raised by import tariffs, it is insignificant and unworthy of discussion. We have a completely open trade policy.