From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Approximately 97% Or 98% of Our Trade Deficit Is With Penguin
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 07:29:43 -0400
Organization: None
Gronk wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> Damn pengies.
Now Lyin' Leavitt is boasting about "receipts" for how unfair other countries
are treating us with tariffs.
Such as Japan's supposedly 700% tariff on imports of <laughing> American rice.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/12/japan/japan-rice-tariffs/
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt created a stir in Japan on
Wednesday when she accused Japan of imposing a 700% tariff on American rice
as an example of what the U.S. government views as âegregiousâ duties
levied by their trade partners.
âLook at Japan, tariffing rice 700%,â she said on Tuesday. âPresident
(Donald) Trump believes in reciprocity, and it is about dang time that we
have a president who actually looks out for the interest of American
business and workers.â
. . .
Japan has historically been reluctant to import rice â its staple food â to
protect domestic rice farmers. But in the 1990s, its protectionism stance
became a great source of trade friction during World Trade Organization
negotiations.
As a result, Japan now imports 770,000 metric tons of rice without tariffs
each year under a 1995 âminimum accessâ deal with the WTO.
According to the most recent numbers from the agriculture ministry, the U.S
accounted for the highest share of tariff-free rice imported by Japan in
2023 under this agreement among countries that included Thailand, China and
Australia, with a total of 350,000 tons of U.S. rice imported that year
under the framework.
Lyin' Leavitt
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