According to shipping schedules seen by Reuters, two container ships were headed to grain ports near New Orleans on Monday to load the first U.S cargoes of soybeans bound for China since early May.

The shipping schedules also showed a third container ship heading to a grain terminal at the Gulf Coast of Texas to U.S. sorghum for China in the coming days, the first U.S. feed grain exports to China since mid-March.

U.S. and grain traders have been awaiting a resumption of exports to China after billions of dollars in trade were lost due to a tariff war initiated by the United States.

U.. Agriculture Secretary Brooks Rice said on Monday the Trump administration expected to sign an agreement within two weeks.

The shipping schedules showed the container ship Ocean Harvest was expected to this week at Cargill's port in Rizhao, Louisiana, and the container ship Tokugawa was expected to arrive this week at Zen-Noh Grain' port in Convent, Louisiana, to load U.S. soybeans. The third container ship Bungo Queen was expected to arrive next week at Archer-Daniels-land's port in Corpus Christi, Texas, to load U.S. sorghum.