On Friday, China terminated anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on imported sorghum from the United States, as domestic farmers have had difficulties selling pork products caused by lower prices.

The Ministry of Commerce said it found prices of domestic pork products have been in decline, affecting the livelihoods of many farmers.

Under such circumstances, it is not in the public interest to level a trade investigation on sorghum imported from the US, which can be used to formulate animal feed. The government will also return temporary anti-dumping deposits collected at Chinese customs, the ministry said in an online statement.

China began to impose provisional anti-dumping measures on grain sorghum imported from the US on April 18. Importers of the product were required to pay deposits with Chinese customs calculated with a rate of 178.6 percent.