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But neither of those is the metric that explains why defenses have so much trouble stopping him.

An October 2025 deal promised China would buy 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans a year, but relief has proved mostly symbolic.

Before the 2018-19 trade war, China regularly imported 30 million to 36 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually — more than one-third of all American soybean exports.

Ghana exports an average of 78,000 metric tons of cocoa beans to the United States annually.

For Marriott, the partnership was an inexpensive way to boost room count, a metric watched closely by Wall Street investors.