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The Japanese beef import quota will be a crucial component of US-Japanese discussions in the upcoming round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations. The focus will be on the economic issues, including the effects of policy alternatives to the quota on the Japanese cattle industry and beef imports. Several social issues, including the effects of increased imports on nutrient balance in the diet, changing tastes in Japan, and their self-sufficiency goals are at least as important to the Japanese. This article considers both the economic and social issues of increased imports and their implications for negotiations.
Because of the limited arable land area available and its growing and increasingly affluent population, Japan has become heavily dependent on imports of many foods and feedstuffs. In the Japanese perspective, the growing imports pose a threat to both domestic agricultural producers and national security interests. As a consequence, the Japanese have erected import barriers to limit dependency on world markets as well as to raise prices and support incomes in the domestic agricultural sector of the economy. Over time, particularly since World War 11, a number of these barriers have been dismantled or lowered, such as the elimination of the restrictive soybean import quota in the 1960s and the soybean import tariff in 1972. Nevertheless, many such import restrictions remain, leading to intense trade negotiations between Japan and its trading partners.
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