US at Disadvantage in Japan Trade Deal

Trade Deal Between Japan, Australia puts US, Other Beef Exporters at Disadvantage

Richard Smith
By  Richard Smith , DTN Tokyo Correspondent
Beef coming into Japan gets hit by a 38.5% tariff under under the current Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact. (DTN file photo by Marcia Zarley Taylor)
Beef coming into Japan gets hit by a 38.5% tariff under under the current Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact. (DTN file photo by Marcia Zarley Taylor)
A trade deal agreed upon April 7 between Japan and Australia will put U.S. and other beef exporters to Japan at a disadvantage, unless Tokyo can be persuaded to do away with beef tariffs under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.

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