Table 2: Total volume and country of origin of soy-based imports in 2018 and 2019
Based on these data, ingredient profiles of China and the Ukraine imports were developed. The primary ingredients imported from China in 2018 were ground or pelletized soy-oil cake (41,998 MT, 76.2%) and organic soybeans (7780 MT,14.1%), while the primary product imported from the Ukraine were organic soybeans at 44,776 MT (99.9%). Similar results were seen in data from 2019 with 4,449 MT (72.9%) of soy oil cake and 1,482 MT (23.9%) of organic soybeans imported from China and 40,143 MT (100%) of organic soybeans arriving from the Ukraine. (Table 3).