date:Nov 21, 2013
apan is considering introducing a system in trade with the United States that would enable items to be imported with no tariffs, or lowered tariffs, up to a certain quantity.
Japan has imported 360,000 tons of rice per year from the United States under a World Trade Organization deal that obliges Japan to provide minimum market access opportunities in exchange for levying high tariffs on imported rice.
The system Japan could propose as a concession would be different from the so-called minimum