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Japan is considering increasing its soybean and rice imports as a concession in trade negotiations with the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Japan’s Yomiuri daily reported. With Trump’s trade offensive roiling markets and stoking recession fears, Japan is seeking to walk back his “reciprocal” tariffs and other duties imposed on Japan, along with dozens of countries. In their first round of bilateral talks on Wednesday, U.S. negotiators brought up automobiles and rice as areas where they said Tokyo puts up market barriers, and they demanded that Japan import more meat, fish products and potatoes, the newspaper said, without citing the sources for its information. Japan’s Cabinet Office could not immediately be reached for comment. Those trade barriers are cited in an annual report by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Japanese media highlighted a White House photo of the 400-page report on the table at the talks in Washington. Trump unexpectedly ...

Bangladesh’s recent move to seal land ports with India and increased fresh harvests locally have brought down rice prices by 16% in the eastern part of the country in the past ten days, according to traders, who said the commodity might see a further decline in prices. Prices of the popular parboiled miniket rice, which

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Malaysia is experiencing a challenging period related to meeting domestic rice needs. Malaysian Minister of Agriculture and Security, Datuk Seri Mohammad Bin Sabu said that rice production in his country is far below Indonesia. The rice planting index in Malaysia is also relatively small. So, the government of the neighboring country relies heavily on imports to feed its population. That makes the price of rice there soar. The question is, will Malaysia also buy rice from Indonesia? Mohammad did not give a definite answer. Because, the main purpose of his visit was to learn what Indonesia was doing, so that production increased. "Not yet, but we will discuss (the potential for rice imports from Indonesia). We import a lot from here, coconuts, vegetables, including fish, and so on. But this rice we want to rely more on the technology seen in Indonesia," said the Malaysian Minister of Agriculture in a press conference at the Ministry of Agriculture Headquarters.