They have to eat but that doesn’t mean they want it. They prefer others which is evidenced right there in your excerpt by the fact that they lower tariffs for the Australians. That shows they would rather have a different supplier.
In my travels I have heard numerous times that the Japanese do not like American beef. It does not have a great following.
Trump is right. They don’t want it. But they buy it because the population has to eat.
Trump is right. They set tariffs higher on US Beef than for other nations. We can set tariffs on their imports.
But understand Trump. He’s saying we can set tariffs on their exports to the US. He’s not saying we ‘will’, he’s saying we ‘can’ which means it can be used as leverage in trade negotiations.
Now if the Japanese don’t want our beef, there are a few options. ONE, we can tell US beef producers to get with the program and start to improve the quality of their beef. Or TWO, we can tell the Japanese to lower the barriers on other US products such as wines. The Pacific Northwest produce some of the world’s best wines and the Japanese love it. But there are local Japanese producers and there are global competitors that tend to limit the US importation of wine.
Many things can be done and Trump knows how to get it done.
Or, it shows that the Aussies were better negotiators. Probably some of both...
They prefer others which is evidenced right there in your excerpt by the fact that they lower tariffs for the Australians. That shows they would rather have a different supplier.
Or, it shows that the Aussies were better negotiators. Probably some of both...