The commerce minister claims that a Chinese state-owned enterprise (Beidahuang) will definitely purchase 1.2 million tonnes of white rice from the Thai government’s stockpile at a good price within the next two weeks. The buyer is also said to be interested in buying 200,000 tonnes of rubber.
A Reuters news article on Sept 12 claims that "talks on a government-to-government deal had been taking place with Thailand for some time but nothing had been settled, but also noted that "it is impossible for China to import that much rice as China doesn't need that much."