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EU food exports to Japan soar due to free trade pact

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Fantastic. Hopefully good cheese will be everywhere and not at rip off prices.

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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...

7 ( +8 / -1 )

Cheese and salami! Bring it on!

7 ( +7 / -0 )

Great news for British manufacturers. Cheddar cheese, Red Leicester, Caerphilly....

Oh : (

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butter exports surged 47.8 percent

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 :(

11 ( +11 / -0 )

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.

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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.

7 ( +7 / -0 )

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

-8 ( +3 / -11 )

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.

Invalid CSRF

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Cheddar cheese, Red Leicester, Caerphilly....

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.

-5 ( +0 / -5 )

Dream on, cheap wine Yes, but that has been the case for years,

2 ( +2 / -0 )

But the companies will just increase their profit margins and screw the customer.

4 ( +4 / -0 )

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.

7 ( +7 / -0 )

Wow, a lot of well off people here. I get two down votes for appreciating cheap French cream cheese.

-2 ( +2 / -4 )

Wow, a lot of well off people here. I get two down votes for appreciating cheap French cream cheese

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, ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥.

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bogvaFeb. 3 03:34 pm JST

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...

Don't blame the trading companies. Find out who controls the imports of many food products and subjects those products to ridiculous tariffs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun Trade between nations without regulatory barriers such as tariffs or quotas.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun international trade free from government interference, especially trade free from tariffs or duties on imports

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun international trade free of government interference

0 ( +0 / -0 )

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.

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trade between the world's third-largest economy and the bloc ...... the bloc

nice tp read that there is a bloc.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

Wikipedia produced no direct result for ranking of exporting countrys

but for “List of countries by net exports” jp scores 13th

0 ( +0 / -0 )

Which countries ???.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

Japan needs Aldi real bad...

0 ( +0 / -0 )

Do u mean that exports was not going well before this action was taken ???.

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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.

Then I guess all that cheap New Zealand butter I buy at Seiyu has been smuggled in, eh?

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