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I would assume because maintaining some level of domestic food production would be important for national security.
by zaphoyd 9y ago
I would assume because maintaining some level of domestic food production would be important for national security.
- iopq 9y agoI would assume maintaining healthy trade relationships is important for food shortages like these, as well.
- emodendroket 9y agoIs the claim here that Japan is not able to trade as often as it would like? That seems to be obviously wrong.
- iopq 9y agoOf course it's not. When you erect trade barriers with other countries, they don't want to trade with you that much either. So exports to other countries are probably limited by the import policy of Japan, since they never made trade deals that lower tariffs on both ends.
- emodendroket 9y agoBut that is what is, in my opinion, obviously wrong. Go on a drive in any town in America and tell me there aren't a lot of Japanese products being sold here.
- iopq 9y agoWhich are much more expensive than American goods, which is what I'm saying is bad. If there isn't an extremely good trade deal between the two countries, then the tariffs will be high. Japan doesn't WANT a lot of American stuff, so they have no incentive to give a really good deal to American manufacturers. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/10/trump-and-abe-us-may-struggle-to-land-a-bilateral-trade-deal-with-japan.html http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/10/trump-and-abe-us-may-struggle... indeed, it seems it's hard to get a good trade deal with Japan (asking for low tariffs on American imports)
- emodendroket 9y agoA Mazda is much more expensive than a comparable Ford?
- iopq 9y agoYou have to pay more for a Mazda than you otherwise would. It doesn't matter if Ford makes worse or more expensive cars.
- emodendroket 9y agoAnd yet Japanese cars consistently are among the top sellers in the United States (and are hardly uncommon on most of the globe's continents). It seems to me that there is nothing "unhealthy" about Japanese trade relationships.