Export TargetsImplied targets in the trade deal call for a sharp increase in U.S. exports to ChinaU.S. goods and services exports to ChinaSource: Commerce Department (goods and services)Note: 2019 data is the pace during the first three quarters. Targets assume a $60 billion increase in2020 and $140 billion increase in 2021. Created with Highcharts 6.1.1.billionTargets200020052010201520200100200$300 There is little doubt that China can scale up its purchases from the current pace of about $10 billion a year. Its pork production has been decimated by an African swine fever, and the nation can’t yet feed its population of 1.4 billion only with domestic suppliers. Government control over the economy will also ease the process. Still, in nearly two decades of burgeoning American agricultural exports to China since its admission to the World Trade Organization, there has never been a period with the scale of growth foreseen by the deal. […]