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03/23/2005 @ 8:00 pm
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is reporting that Japan is hoping to start exporting rice to China as early as this summer.
Though Japan has asked China to lift its ban on rice imports, there was no word whether Japan will be lowering the 407% tariff it slaps on rice it imports from other countries.
Thanks to news.3yen.com.
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March 24th, 2005 at 4:25 pmSome people will be willing to pay more for what is (arguably) a higher quality of rice.
In my experience Japanese people will notice and comment on the quality of the white rice reasonably often, while the quality of rice served in China is usually much lower, possibly because Chinese may prefer to spend more on e.g. meat/fish etc rather than rice.
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