TOKYO: A Trump administration request that Japan buy more US rice caused this week's snag in bilateral trade talks as Tokyo "strongly objected" to the condition, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday (Aug 30).
Japan's top tariff negotiator abruptly cancelled a US trip on Thursday over unspecified "points that need to be discussed at the administrative level", the top government spokesperson said, as the two sides try to hammer out details of a July agreement on a reduced 15 per cent tariff on US imports from Japan.
