Drought was a killer for all here in Texas......
However, the extra consumption will be met from stocks rather than imports, which will drop for a second successive year, as exportable supplies from Japan’s two top origins, Australia and the US, are squeezed.
It’s all ‘bushes’ fault!!!
Why buy from us when they have that great Hiroshima beef?
By the way, all of Donald’s speech is like that: erratic, tangential and generally childlike.
BTW, I know some farmers who are calling their cattle grass-fed while finishing them with grain. They get the highest dollar for their slaughter cattle. ;-)
I think Trump’s (and others’) point is being, at the very least, misconstrued here. The point is not that we can balance our trade deficit with Japan by selling them more beef (although of course we would like to.) Rather, Trump is saying that it is crazy that we are not exporting to Japan many more billions of dollars of other goods - and a good part of the reason is trade policies. In quite a few areas, given a level trade policy playing field, US companies are competitive (lower price than mfg. in Japan, yet higher quality than China, etc.) I know this from direct experience in a case where a MAJOR Japanese firm was looking at the company I worked for as a potential vendor. Unfortunately, the project developed in a different direction & we were not needed, but, the economics of it were ok, and would have been even better if Japanese trade restrictions were even-handed.
You might say, the beef is not just about beef...
What did Trump say (actual in-context words) and do you have a link to allow us to check your assertion?