. >> this is robert daly of the wilson center joining us to talk about these efforts between the united states and china on trade. and in washington, d.c., you're up next. >> caller: yes, i'm calling, you mentioned a very, you mentioned the soybeans, i was wondering, how is that outcome? we heard a lot about it when china, when the president, i think used the soybean industry to punish, i guess, china, but how is that affecting us? what's going on? you don't hear much about specifically, are they just rotting in barns? or what? >> so it is not that the president uses soybeans to punish china, it is that china puts tariffs on soybeans, to punish the united states. so china had been our largest export market for soybeans. china has now put a heavy tariff on those, and is importing more of its soybeans from brazil which means that enormous parts of agricultural america have lost their major market. and so the price of soybeans drops. soybeans are even sitting unsold or marketed at prices that are not viable for our manufacturers, in the midwest. so you're right, you're calling from washing