Japan American Beef

Packs of frozen beef beef imported from the U.S. are sold at a supermarket in Tokyo on Jan. 9, 2020. Imported American beef in Japan has proved so popular it's topped the annual limits called “safeguards,” and the U.S. Meat Export Federation on Thursday, March 18, 2021 urged Tokyo to raise the threshold. Japan's import limit for American beef of 242,000 metric tons was reached in early March, and so tariffs will be raised from 25.8% to 38.5% for a month, starting Thursday through April 16, 2021. (Kyodo News via AP)