By Jacqui Fatka
Farm Progress
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Deputy United States Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi held a virtual meeting December 21 with Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa to discuss the status of consultations to adjust the applicable safeguard trigger levels of Japan’s beef safeguard to higher levels for U.S. beef exports to Japan.
This past year, Japan’s imports of U.S. beef exceeded the safeguard threshold of 242,000 mt on March 17, approaching the end of the Japanese fiscal year (March 31).