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In 2021, the total value of all retail food and beverage (F&B) sales in Japan totaled $467.20 billion, a 2.3 percent decrease over 2020 sales of $478.12 billion. Supermarkets continue to represent the bulk of the retail food market, accounting for 74 percent of the market, with convenience stores, drugstores and internet sales of food and beverages accounting for the rest of the market.
A Tableau visualization comparing exports to the current top U.S. agricultural export markets since 1989.
The U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement (USJTA), which entered into force on January 1, 2020, improved market access for U.S. products through the creation of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for food wheat, wheat products, malt, processed cheese, whey, glucose and fructose, potato starch, corn starch, and inulin. In JFY 2021, allocation and fill rates of the TRQs continued to remain low.
Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) will add walnuts to list of allergens that product manufacturers and importers must include on the label of packaged products containing walnuts. Currently, CAA strongly recommends including walnuts on the label, but does not require their inclusion.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) proposed revisions to Japan’s maximum residue levels for 9 agricultural chemicals (Etofenprox, Fenpyroximate, Florasulam, Fluensulfone, Tetraconazole, Cloxacillin, 1,2-Dichlorobenzene, Didecyldimethylammonium chloride, and Nicarbazin) for various agricultural commodities.
On August 21, 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) announced that it had received an application for the establishment of a Kobe Beef Geographical Indication (GI).
Japan will post new records for broiler meat production, consumption, and importation in 2015 as poultry sales outpace relatively higher priced pork and beef in both the retail and food service...
Japanese beef production is projected to continue its downward trend through 2016, as Japanese pork production rebounds in 2015 from the worst impacts of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv).