The deal will reportedly see the US levy 15% tariff on goods imported from Japan. Donald Trump also said the US would increase exports of rice and vehicles to the East Asian nation.

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I stand corrected!

    I, however will not buy US rice from a shitty experience I had with it, and the fact that I’d rather not support a shithole run by a president who wants to annex Canada.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Understandable

      I use us rice because I live here and in terms of global warming unless there is a shortage and I have no other option it makes the most sense to use California rice

      That said Japanese rice is more aromatic and has lower arsenic content so in a perfect world I would use that. However, I do not want to both contribute to the emissions of shipping rice across the globe when there is rice that is good enough plus I don’t want to contribute to taking Japanese rice away from Japan. It appears that a big contributor to the rice shortage is again capitalistic scumbaggery - both in terms of middlemen scalping with shortages occurring and the export market valuing Japanese rice as “premium”. I don’t want to contribute to that just like I won’t buy a marked up concert ticket or game console.