The effect of Sino-US trade dispute on agriculture industry: a case of soybean

Abstract

This paper is going to explore the effect of the recent Sino-US dispute on the soybean industry, and use some selected soybean companies as samples to do case study to show the specific effect on the soybean industry of the United States and Brazil. Researchers will collect the soybean future data from the United States market, and also the financial reports of the selected sample companies through Bloomberg database. Researcher will use the soybean future data to show the status of soybean industry in the States, stock price price of the sample companies to show the performance of the companies, and use the financial report to analyse the different cases. The news and research papers indicate that the Sino-US trade dispute is hurting American soybean industry while benefiting the Brazilian soybean industry, but the paper will focus on the specific companies but not the countries.