“We’re in the midst of these US-China trade talks, and everybody’s on the edge of their chairs about hoped-for goodwill Chinese soyabean purchases during this period of negotiation,” says Richard Feltes, vice-president at RJ O’Brien, a Chicago-based commodities broker. “We regrettably are not getting that information.” Mr Feltes, a grain market specialist, added that the information blackout “provides an unfair information advantage to large exporters who now have inside information on whether or not those sales are taking place. For us standard market users, that aren’t involved in the export trade of key commodities, we don’t know if anything is going on or not.”

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