China signed the health rules so that Argentina can export wheat: Will it be possible to do that business?

The Ministry of Agriculture reported this Thursday that it signed a series of health protocols with China to allow the export of agricultural products. The most promising of these agreements has to do with wheat, a cereal of which the Chinese are the third largest importers in the world, with almost 10 million tons annually. In recent years, Argentina has managed to open, with mixed luck, that colossal Asian market for different cereals (such as corn, sorghum and barley), it has a production of close to 15 million tons and is one of the largest exporters of wheat. But it will be difficult for it to gain a foothold in that country, since the existing demand is covered by several wheat powers such as Australia, the United States, Canada, France and Kazakhstan. Accompanying the delegation of traveling President Alberto Fernández to that country, the Secretary of Agriculture Juan José Bahillo tried to add some emotion to the signed agreements, which in any case were part of a ...