I forget the exact history, but Reagan (I think it was him) slapped Japan over "unfair trade", and Japan retaliated by looking for another soybean supply-chain.
Brazil developed to fill the Japanese appetite (or the appetite of their pigs?).
Now Brazil is a giant that can fill any void we create by our "trade war(s)"
Buyers tend to be conservative in where they get their supplies. But they can and will occasionally look for a new source, when the old suppliers prove unreliable in one way or another.
(I can't get anything else to load on my computer, but google pages are loading. It seems Nixon was the president who made a "move" that caused Japan to invest in Brazil, but I can't tell you what that "move" was. Wish I could read the actual web sites. I miss the old days of Google making a copy of every page that was hit. The absence of Google "cache" or whatever really sucks, and for a lot of reasons)
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