Recently, the reporter learned from the third China International Import Expo that ADM, an American company, had successfully signed an investment cooperation agreement with Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee, indicating the formal settlement of ADM's China Agricultural Products Trade Center project here. As an important business segment of ADM, the China Agricultural Products Trade Center project will focus on the import trade of bulk agricultural products such as soybeans, corn, sorghum, crude oil, beet pulp, and distillers dried grains of corn, offshore re-export trade, and structured trade finance in the future. Its business will cover the whole China and other countries such as the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Ukraine.

ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) is the world's leading integrated food and agricultural product processor, with a turnover of USD 64.3 billion in 2019 and ranked No. 155 among the Fortune 500 companies in 2019. It has been rated by Fortune magazine as "the most respected food company" in the world for many years. It is learned that its business covers the entire agricultural value chain, and it has more than 300 production bases around the world, with products including high value-added food and food ingredients, animal nutrition products, and so on.