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reuters U.S. foes cast aside politics to buy grains
By K.T. Arasu 43 minutes ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Iran may be dueling with Washington over its nuclear ambitions, but when the country desperately needed corn last month, it turned to the United States.
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Nations like Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Cuba have icy diplomatic ties with Washington but they do not let politics stand in the way of importing competitively-priced food or feed ingredients from the United States.
The world's largest exporter of corn, soybeans and wheat, the United States ships its agricultural commodities across the globe, to friends and foes from Spain to Iraq to Sudan.
"They want to make sure they feed their people. They don't want to screw with that. Politics is politics," said veteran grains analyst Don Roose of brokerage U.S. Commodities.
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