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TPP, with Japan included, is just not going to happen.

Unless everyone else caves in and accepts something like the Australian-Japan EPA, where A 38.5 percent tariff on frozen beef will only drop to 19.5 percent over 15 years and Australian cheese exporters duty-free cheddar exports will only grow to 27,000 metric tons over 20 years, while the tariff will remain at 29.8 per cent.

Meanwhile Japan will get to destroy your domestic steel, automobile and white household products, with zero tariffs on their exports.

Obama and congress, if they had a pair, should tell Japan to get her on her bike. Japan should have never been allowed to partake in the TPP talks.

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It's laughable the media keeps referring to the tpp as a free trade agreement.

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Have anyone tasted Australia cheese? It expensive at Y1200 per kilo and taste like krap and that is the generic brand. The Australia beef is lean having very little fat contents and taste like Krap. What I have been told is that USA have the same problem with their beef and cheese

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@John-san,

To what are you comparing Aussie cheese to; Japanese "natural cheese?" Give me a break. Also, many people prefer that their steaks taste like, oh I don't know.... beef. Rather than a mouthful of fat.

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@john sorry but you know seet f all, firstly Australian prefer lean beef because it is much healthier for you than the fattier version. Australian value beef content not fat as value for money, yes Australia (Tasmania) produces the high fat beef the Japanese prefer and it is even sold in Japan at some stores, the problem is with the high tarriffs, high tarriffs means lower quality food products coming into Japan. Australia USA NZ etc produce a lot of high quality items without the high Japanese tarriffs theyll be available to Japanese at proper market prices, and this is another reason why JA is scared. Theyll be exposed to superior products at the same and even better prices than JA could ever produce. Unfortunately this will never be exposed to to J public those tarriffs are removed. bring on the TPP, better products, more choices, at affordable prices. let the other 97% decide with there wallets.

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wtfjapan

the problem is with the high tarriffs, high tarriffs means lower quality food products coming into Japan

Nope there is absolutely no relationship with one to the other. It only hikes up the price. I was in the food business once and saw the level of quality of meat imported to Japan deteriorate quickly as Australia was not able to meet demand from places like China five years ago but now with China's economy going down hill I imagine demand had gone down with a lot of surplus of beef that Australia just can't sell in the international market without lowering the price.

The present tariff on beef is 38.5% which is not overly high in terms of food product around the world.

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