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factchecker
Fantastic. Hopefully good cheese will be everywhere and not at rip off prices.
bogva
Haven't seen lower prices. A friend said french wine is cheaper but how about cheeses and meat products, olives, etc., etc.?
Guess trading companies in Japan are very happy getting richer while their employees working longer hours for the same pay...
kohakuebisu
Cheese and salami! Bring it on!
lucabrasi
Great news for British manufacturers. Cheddar cheese, Red Leicester, Caerphilly....
Oh : (
cleo
Can't say I've noticed any change in the price?
And yeah, good Cheddar at reasonable prices is still a pipe dream.
Joining lucabrasi in a great big :(
Alfie Noakes
Comedy gold.
I was in the Kinokuniya store at Big Scramble Square Building when it opened last autumn and spotted 250g packs of Lurpak slightly salted butter at .... 1,600 yen each. In Aldi at Christmas in the UK the exact same pack was 300 yen.
In my local Seiyu I found NZ butter at the same price per gram as Yotsuba butter, so that's what I'll be having from now on.
Cricky
Like most international agreements Japan makes its totally worthless. But they can claim they made an agreement. Have you seen a plethora of Europen goods?......thought not.
sumikonagoya
Have you seen a plethora of Europen goods?......thought not.
Let me see:
louis vuitton japan
https://jp.louisvuitton.com/content/dam/lv/online/picture/allcountry/news/articles/912_supremepopup_jp1/LVNOW_912_Supreme_PopUp_Tokyo_note.pdf
BMW
https://www.bmw.co.jp/ja/index.html
bershka
https://www.bershka.com/jp/en/women-c1010193132.html
IKea
https://www.ikea.com/jp/en/
Have you seen you brain? Thought not
cleo
A pop-up fashion store that folded in 2017, cars that cost a year’s salary, a fashion group and a furniture store are not the stuff of everyday supermarket shopping.
So yeah, NOT a plethora of European goods.
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Sh1mon M4sada
Sounds exotic and $$$. From my days in Dresden (Germany), I'm still fond of a wedge of French 'La Vache' cream cheese (only foreign food available) on toasted rye bread, cheap as chips, but very good for all kinds of mornings including hung over ones. Come to think of it, good for late nights too and good on all kinds of bread.
I dream of a french brunet just reminiscing.
mrbaberunee
Dream on, cheap wine Yes, but that has been the case for years,
Kobe White Bar Owner
But the companies will just increase their profit margins and screw the customer.
Cricky
Just checked my local supermarkets, No Louis Vitton, asked where the BMW section was just got a blank look? And neither had Swedish furniture? It might have given me a headache had I a brain.
Sh1mon M4sada
Wow, a lot of well off people here. I get two down votes for appreciating cheap French cream cheese.
cleo
I imagine the downs are more likely for suggesting Cheddar, Red Leicester and Caerphilly are ‘exotic’, and for associating them with $$$. They are £, or in Japan, ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥.
vic.M
bogvaFeb. 3 03:34 pm JST
Don't blame the trading companies. Find out who controls the imports of many food products and subjects those products to ridiculous tariffs.
JCosplay
You said it reckless! unlike some trade agreements, like NAFTA, this trade deal actually does what you said it’s going to do. And I’m very supportive of those kind of trade deals, which is why I was actually happy when it got signed. And no pun intended, but thank God it’s bearing fruit now.
William77
As a citizen of the European Union living in Japan I found this deal really advantaging.
I'm capable to buy wine and pasta from my country in a relative affordable way compared to before.
These benefits can only be good.
vic.M
What is a free trade agreement ? I always imagined it to be like the following, guess I was wrong. New Zealand has free trade and as an example allows the imports of thousands of used motor vehicles each year without duties or tariffs whilst NZ butter imported in to japan has high tariffs.
Wakarimasen
Good news, but prices remain persistently high for all this imported food and drink. Agree with comments on butter and cheese plus olives etc. As for wine, still cheaper to buy Aussie and NZ.
Jandworld
trade between the world's third-largest economy and the bloc ...... the bloc
nice tp read that there is a bloc.
Jandworld
Wikipedia produced no direct result for ranking of exporting countrys
but for “List of countries by net exports” jp scores 13th
TARA TAN KITAOKA
Which countries ???.
kurisupisu
Japan needs Aldi real bad...
TARA TAN KITAOKA
Do u mean that exports was not going well before this action was taken ???.
commanteer
Then I guess all that cheap New Zealand butter I buy at Seiyu has been smuggled in, eh?