China's soybean imports have two basic characteristics: the largest import country and the high concentration of import sources. Therefore, China's response strategys against US soybean imports will not only change the pattern of global soybean trade, but also have an impact on China's domestic food prices, that is, the overall rise of soybean import price will lead to the general rise of domestic soybean product price, which will result in the rise of domestic food prices, and even lead to inflation. China's removal of soybean import tariffs on the five Asia-Pacific countries will increase the competitiveness of soybean products from the five Asia-Pacific countries in China's market. In the short term, it will have a limited impact on the regional structure of China's soybean imports; but in the long run, it can help China optimize the regional structure of imports. Therefore, we should adopt a short-term strategy to significantly reduce the scale of soybean imports, and adopt long-term strategies such as accelerating the promotion of agricultural supply-side structural reforms, improving the stability of soybean import source countries other than the United States, strategically cultivating new source countries of soybean import, as well as doing a good job in the long-term supply of soybean substitute products.
