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A crane loads soybean imported from Ukraine off a ship in a port in Nantong in east China's Jiangsu Province on May 10, 2019. Xu Congjun/Future Publishing via Getty Images
China suddenly lifted its 80 percent tariffs on Australian barley exports on Aug. 4, citing changes to its “market situation,” without any further explanation.