Rice not on the table in Japan’s trade talks with US
After complaining that President Donald Trump’s key Asian ally did not buy American Rice, Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of the tariff negotiations with the US.
Trump’s interpretation of a social media broadcast on Monday is struggling to persuade Tokyo’s US US cars to make a 24 percent mutual tariff in Japanese cars and other Japanese imports.
The mutual tariff was paused until July 9, but Japan has just provided a trade agreement after about three months of negotiations.
While the automobile industry is the best employer and exporter of Japan, the farm industry traditionally became an important vote block for the liberal Democratic Party, which faced Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on July 20.
High -level trade negotiator and economy Minister Rysei Akazawa said to a press conference on Tuesday, “I have repeatedly stated that agriculture is the foundation of the nation,” he said.
“We continue to remain unchanged in negotiations with the United States: We will not hold negotiations to sacrifice the agricultural sector,” he said.
Returning from his seventh trip a few days ago, Akazawa refused to tell you if Rice was part of these discussions.
Trump wrote that Japan’s reluctance to import American rice is a sign that countries are “pampered in relation to the United States”.
Orum I respect Japan, they won’t take our rice, and there is still a big shortage of rice, ”he wrote.
Japan, Rice, which has been grown in Turkey, has been damaging consumers since last year, and in recent months, the US rice has been imported in recent months.
However, Tokyo applies taxes ($ 2.37) ($ 2.37) per kg, consumed in meals, consumed in 100,000 metric tons per year and consumed in meals unlike rice used for feed or materials in other products. This amount is about seven million tons of the total annual consumption of Japan.
Farm Minister Shinjiro Koizumi burned the influx of foreign rice as a threat to Japan’s food safety, while the government put forward the first 30,000 tons of tariffs of this year as part of its efforts to reduce domestic prices.
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