Japan vows more US rice imports within tariff-free quota
Agricultura
TOKYO :Japan will import more rice from the United States but within the existing tariff-free quota, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Wednesday, stressing Tokyo's success in protecting the agricultural sector in agreeing a bilateral trade deal. After months of negotiations, the two countries struck a deal to lower the so-called "reciprocal tariffs" to 15 per cent from a proposed 25 per cent, and said increased rice shipments from the U.S. to Japan was part of that deal. Under a World Trade
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