President Donald Trump is threatening to impose higher tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States over what he claims is the country’s unwillingness to buy American-grown rice.
“They won’t take our RICE, and yet they have a massive rice shortage. In other words, we’ll just be sending them...
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2025.06.16
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Taiwan-grown guavas and mangoes have been cleared by the EU Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety for shipment to the region, marking a new chapter in government promotion of local agriculture export to the world.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the development reflects global...
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US efforts to increase exports of agricultural products to Asia, excluding China, look to be bearing fruit, with Vietnam pledging to buy more American goods to strengthen trade ties with Washington.
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The federal government plans to work urgently to remove Chinese tariffs on Canadian agriculture and seafood products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday.
“The Canadian government is engaging with its Chinese counterparts at the ministerial level and we’ll continue those discussions,” Carney...
Vietnam Plus
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Thailand has been officially designated a “Low Risk” country under the European Union’s Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR), easing the export of Thai agricultural products to EU markets.
According to Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Narumon Pinyosinwat, the classification confirms...
eastasiaforum
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In response to soaring supermarket rice prices, the Japanese government released 210,000 tonnes of rice from its emergency reserves in February 2025, despite an abundance of rice production in the country. The price spike since summer 2024 did not occur because of a production shortage, but due to...
j-cast
2025.05.06
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In the summer of 2024, rice disappeared from supermarket shelves, sparking a furor known as the Reiwa rice riots. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries began releasing government stockpiles of rice in March 2025, but rice prices have not fallen and are still high.
According to the...
Taiwan Today
2025.05.06
2
Taiwan-grown pineapples will remain an important component of school meals in Japan for the seventh year running, the Ministry of Agriculture said during a promotional event May 5 in the southern city of Tainan.
According to the ministry, the initiative stems from the “Memorandum of...