In 2025, China reduced wheat imports by 3.7 times.

Due to an increase in domestic wheat production, China reduced its wheat imports by almost 3.7 times to 2.9 million tons from January to September 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year. According to the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China, in 2024 China imported 11 million tons of wheat, of which over 3.3 million tons were from Australia, over 2.5 million tons from Canada, about 2.3 million tons from France, 1.9 million tons from the United States, 600 thousand tons from Kazakhstan, and 345.8 thousand tons from the Russian Federation (which is 2.5 times higher than the 2023 figure). It is worth recalling that in 2023 China imported ...