Brazil may buy up to 1 million tons of American soybeans.

[roamer65]

They will buy ours cheap, use them domestically and sell theirs to China at the higher price.

More winning lol.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-05/wait-what-brazil-may-buy-up-to-1-million-tons-of-u-s-soybeans

[Blue_true]

1. Or, they will use them as seed stock to improve the protein content of their soybeans.

US soybeans have a higher protein content, likely from years of selective seed planting. What better way to catch a rival than to buy their product when they are down and then figure out how to build a better product.

[roamer65]

2. True capitalism at work.

[Blue_true]

3. When I was a young engineer, the first company that I work for

would buy competitors products on the open market and reverse engineer them. I thought the tactic was scummy, but the company had a team of people dedicated to that effort, I was not part of it and wanted nothing to do with it.

My advice to inventors is that they figure out how to throw a component of feature into a product that does nothing, but can be confused for a component that is key to the invention. The trick throws off copycats, if the decoy is done cleverly it can really mess with their heads, and the trick allows for a patent extension down the road.

[roamer65]

4. It's common among auto manufacturers.

The American ones commonly aim at the Japanese ones.

[dembotoz]

5. But but I only bought the car cause it had a flux capacitor

It wasn't real????
Damn

[JI7]

6. MAGA