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Trump calls Japan 'very spoiled' as he floats idea of imposing 30% or 35% tariff

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of further increasing tariffs on imports from Japan, envisioning a level as high as 30 percent or 35 percent in his latest salvo against Washington's key ally amid stalled bilateral trade negotiations. "I'm not sure we're going to make a d...

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Trump calls Japan 'very spoiled' as he floats idea of imposing 30% or 35% tariff

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We don't import their rice or cars because they're both shit.
- its a little complicated for the rice thing, japan wants thier own rice domestically because they can charge more for it, if they import rice they would have to lower the price of rice in general.
- Yeah the infamous Japanese cars, nobody ever said anything good about those right? Like the garbage Corolla. Or did anyone ever drive a Prius? Or a Hilux?
  
  Wait, are people downvoting me because they think I'm saying Japanese cars are shit?
  I'm a Japanese-Canadian living in Japan; I'm saying we don't import American rice and cars because they're shit.
  
  Oh then I misunderstood (but didn't downvote). But yeah American cars aren't really a thing outside of the American and maybe middle east. The American brands produce different models for different continents.
  
  There are some persistent, no-taste losers here in China who buy Buick (and sometimes even Caddilac). Most people won't touch 'em any longer, though.
- Didn’t they used to import a ton of shitty rice from the US due to some fucked trade deal? Which they just let sit around because they don’t want to eat it?
  
  A lot of the old emergency stockpile rice gets sold off as animal feed as it ages out. I would imagine something similar happened for that.
  
  I mean we have em already, but nobody buys them.
  I bought a bag to see, but I never ate it because it was full of those rice beetle things. Probably just a coincidence, but I've NEVER had that happen in the 15 years of living here so I don't wanna take that chance again.
  
  Wait, yall dont have to freeze your rice to kill pests?
  
  ??? I've never heard of that. Is that something that you need to do?
  We just wash and put it in the cooker. We even have pre-washed rice. There's a lot to complain about here in Japan, but rice isn't one of them. At least, it wasn't. It's more than doubled in price in a year or so :(
  
  If you use it quickly no, but rice and flour in the united states should be assumed potentially contaminated with pest eggs. They won't be a serious problem but they are gross and so any long term raw grain storage here should include a freeze period just to kill it. Tbh I'd just assumed thst was a byproduct of it being natural agricultural products, sorta like you gotta check your dry beans for pebbles that the mechanical sorter may have missed
  
  Ah ok! I bet it's also because Americans tend to buy bigger bulks, so it stays in your pantry longer once the seal is broken. So the chances of those little critters hatching/entering is higher.
  I know Japanese rice isn't immune, because they sell resealable containers and natural repellents specifically for this reason. But personally, I've never had a problem in my resealable container and certainly never had bugs crawling out of a freshly opened bag until the import. This was before the whole 51st State thing so there's no way I'll ever give that rice a second try, unfortunately.
  
  We also generally eat a lot less rice. I'd say I probably eat a ton of the stuff for a white American (Asian, Caribbean, and Latin descended folks are a lot more likely to eat a lot of rice as Americans tend to pass down certain aspects of cultures from wherever we immigrated from), but that means I eat it most weeks.
  And yeah, that makes sense. Boycotting us is the right call, for yourselves, the world, and honestly us too. Financial pain and hunger are nothing compared to the consequences if the current regime is able to take whatever they want without consequence.

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