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[quote user="edblysard"] Not sure if it was made clear in my postings, but China didn’t buy Smithville… Shuanghui did, and they are a food distributor in China. Nothing in any of the articles I have read mentions them importing anything into the US.[/quote] I only say that China bought Smithfield as a kind of figure of speech because China is the larger entity that makes the deal unique.  And I realize that nobody involved with the deal has said that Chinese companies intend to export pork to the U.S.  I certainly don’t expect them to do that for a long time, if ever.  If they did it immediately, I don’t think it would work.  What I see as significant is the potential effect on the Smithfield brand simply due to the purchase by a Chinese company.  That will be interesting to watch.  I remember that there was a recent plan to export U.S. chickens to China, so they could process them, and then export them back to the U.S.  What ever happened with that? <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/19/news/international/china_chickendeal/">http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/19/news/international/china_chickendeal/</a>
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