Let us join hands, bring together the wisdom and strength of ‘Made in China’ to light up the galaxy of the domestic market,” an alliance of 100 supermarkets said in a statement last week, joining a flurry of pledges from government ministries,

China imported more than $1 billion each of cotton, sorghum, beef, pork and seafood from the US last year, according to the government data. In particular, US soybean farmers will lose out on a huge market. China imported nearly $13 billion worth of US soybeans last year, according to the USDA.

China hit back at U.S. President Donald Trump singling out the world's second-largest economy for tariffs of more than 100% by raising additional duties on American products to 84% on Wednesday, deepening the trade war between the two superpowers.