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MAGA: Trump Announces Massive Japanese Trade Deal Potentially Worth 'Billions'
Townhall.com ^ | August 25, 2019 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 08/25/2019 8:26:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

United States President Donald J. Trump alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Sunday the framework for a massive trade deal between the two countries. While nothing has been signed yet, the potential agreement could bolster both economies by billions.

"We’ve been working on a deal with Japan for a long time. And we’ve agreed in principle," President Trump told the press at the G7 Summit.

"We successfully reached consensus with regard to the core elements related to agricultural and industrial trade," Abe told the media via a translator. "We still have some remaining work that has to be done at the working level."

The deal will primarily benefit American farmers.

"With regard to the potential purchase of American corn, in Japan, we are now experiencing insect pests on some agricultural products,” Abe added. "And there is a need for us to buy some of the agricultural products."

"This is a tremendous deal for the United States. It's a really tremendous deal for our farmers," President Trump added.

Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley tweeted, "The President will always stand up for our great farmers and ranchers!"


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: farmer; japan; presidenttrump2020; seebreakingnews; tradedeal
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1 posted on 08/25/2019 8:26:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Japan + USA = ~7% of world population, and 40% of the global economy


2 posted on 08/25/2019 8:30:57 AM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Kaslin

Great boost for the corn farmers and the millions of metric tons now in storage due to the China trade war. Because of this, not much corn in Texas this year but a whole lot of cotton.


3 posted on 08/25/2019 8:32:24 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: thoughtomator

% of world population doesn’t really matter - there’s huge areas of Africa and Asia that have really large popluations yet contribute little to the World economically (or culturally)

Economic power is what matters ...

US + Japan = an economic powerhouse

(and based on SOLID, verifiable economic numbers, not the house-of-cards statistical scam going on in China)


4 posted on 08/25/2019 8:36:32 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

This has rapidly made itself my favorite educational picture on the distribution of global population. Those not from South or East Asia don't seem to have too good a grip on the reality of that distribution.

5 posted on 08/25/2019 8:41:23 AM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: eartick

China reaps the benefits of unfair trade for decades

Trump applies tariffs on China crap we can do without
China retaliates by applying tariff on food Chinese people need to eat.

That will hurt POTUS and the US before the Chinese go hungry.....

Oh wait


6 posted on 08/25/2019 8:45:07 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: thoughtomator

If gloabal warming was true, and caused by Humans, you just identified ground zero of Global “Warming”


7 posted on 08/25/2019 8:47:27 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: canuck_conservative

Great news. The Japanese are tough competitors but honorable. The Chinese have simply no concept of keeping one’s word.


8 posted on 08/25/2019 9:02:37 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: eartick

Yeah, but given Japan’s birth rate how much of a benefit over time. Maybe we can make a deal to sell them Ensure.


9 posted on 08/25/2019 9:04:36 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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Just trade for their smartest and most attractive females

And we can take care of their under-population problem


10 posted on 08/25/2019 9:12:37 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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To: Kaslin

That’s a dig at China.


11 posted on 08/25/2019 9:16:06 AM PDT by bgill
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Japan + USA = ~7% of world population, and 40% of the global economy

That's racist!

12 posted on 08/25/2019 9:25:40 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: bgill

This is the second time PM Abe has come offering gifts to POTUS.

Abe is smart enough to know that the old Bretton Woods system is at an end. Global trade pacts are realigning and the US is being viewed as the only “safe house” left on the globe (resources, rule-of-law, security, corporate property/incorporation, and customers). A more apt term would be “the least dirtiest shirt in the hamper”.

Japan isn’t the only one to read the tea leaves. Korea, SouthEast Asia, Mexico, Brazil and England have made various types of concession(s) or deals with the US. The ones that haven’t received the memo (most notably China and Germany) are gonna find out the hard way that the US has a variety of suppliers to choose from.


13 posted on 08/25/2019 9:33:06 AM PDT by ak267
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To: Kaslin

Joe Walsh is sad.


14 posted on 08/25/2019 9:48:44 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Steven Tyler

Japanese martial arts movies are the bomb. Love that Toshiro.


15 posted on 08/25/2019 10:30:24 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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“...we are now experiencing insect pests on some agricultural products...”

Is that code for radioactive particles?


16 posted on 08/25/2019 10:57:43 AM PDT by odawg
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To: thoughtomator

This sounds like JAPANESE COLLUSION!!!


17 posted on 08/25/2019 12:10:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: thoughtomator

That’s amazing


18 posted on 08/25/2019 12:11:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: thoughtomator

Great graphic!

The extent of the Sahara Desert is impressive too, esp. given that it cycles between current conditions or worse, and wetter / much more hospitable. Good article here, with surprisingly little focus on bogus causes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara


19 posted on 08/25/2019 1:39:35 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: shanover

Effin’ RINO


20 posted on 08/25/2019 1:42:09 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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