China's June Agricultural Imports Match Last Year's Pace

China's agricultural imports during May and June 2025 were nearly identical to year-earlier values. June 2025 agricultural imports totaled $18.5 billion, up 1.9 percent from June of last year, according to data posted on the China Customs Administration web site today. May imports had been up 0.8 percent from a year earlier. The May-June 2025 pace was a reversal of the first four months of 2025 when agricultural imports fell behind last year's values. 

Data from China customs administration web site.

Data for major commodity categories show that the volume of June fruit and nut imports was up 43 percent, while meat imports were up 5 percent from a year ago. Imports of soybeans and grains continued moving in opposite directions. Soybean imports totaled 12.264 million metric tons in June, up 8 percent from a year ago, but imports of grain totaled 2.1 million metric tons, down from 47 percent June last year. Imports of edible oils were down 14 percent. 

China's soybean imports in May and June 2025 were ahead of the previous year's totals, as a large seasonal surge of Brazilian beans arrived. Imports for the first 9 months of the 2024/25 market year are running slightly ahead of the previous year's pace. Cumulative soybean imports from October 2024 to June 2025 totaled 72.6 million metric tons, exceeding the volume imported during the same period in 2023/24 by less than 1.2 million metric tons, according to China's customs data.