An article last year by Minghao Li, Wendong Zhang, and Dermot Hayes of Iowa State University was cited in a Feb. 24 opinion piece "Trump Shouldn’t Settle for a Bowl of Chicken-Rice" in the Washington Post.
The article was on China's ag import potential in the June 2018 CARD Policy Brief.
" As part of the current trade negotiations between the United States and China, China has suggested that it may lower trade barriers and increase agricultural imports from the United States. In this policy brief, we provide an overview of China’s tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and estimate China’s import potential if these barriers are removed. We find that China’s importation of major U.S. commodities has the potential to increase significantly. For example, in our medium-growth scenario, China will potentially increase U.S. pork import value by $8.9 billion if all trade barriers are removed."