date:Jul 17, 2013
the Trans-Pacific Partnership will open the market even more. Japanese negotiators are joining the latest round of TPP talks being held through July 25 in Malaysia.
California farmers grow 70 to 80 percent of the medium grain and nearly all the short grain rice in the U.S. On average, half of the crop is shipped overseas.
Half of those exports, around 300,000 metric tons a year, go to Japan under a World Trade Organization agreement implemented in 1995. But most of that has been under minimum