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But farmers are worried that time is quickly running out to reach a trade deal with China in time to sell any of this year’s crop to their biggest customer.

Trump said Oct. 1 he plans to raise the issue when he meets Xi in South Korea at the end of October. But the clock is already ticking for U.S. soybean growers, with the harvest already under way.

Every one of the countries identified by the U.S. Department of Commerce Foreign Trade Division as a top supplier by export value of trucks to the U.S. warned the agency against the levies.

A long-awaited rule published Sept. 29 by the Commerce Department seeks to prevent sanctioned companies from using affiliates to access restricted U.S. goods. 

Mexico, Brazil and Canada are each seeking to negotiate with the Trump administration to reduce the tariffs, but they’re also focused on blocking the rising tide of cheap Chinese supply.

Led by Rep. Adam Smith, the visit to Beijing comes as tensions have risen between the two countries over trade, technology and opposing views on global conflicts.

Soybean oil futures fell to the lowest in more than three months as Argentina moved to temporarily scrap export tariffs on the country’s crop cargoes, adding pressure to U.S. soy prices.

The trip may contribute to stabilizing ties ahead of a possible meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea next month.

President Trump said he had made progress with Chinese President Xi Jinping toward finalizing a deal over TikTok and that the two would meet on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC summit.

President Trump extended the deadline for TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, to divest the platform’s U.S. operations — this time until Dec. 16 — staving off a shutdown of the app in the U.S.