American parameters not in line with standard. Fears on LNG
Japan will do not make any concession that can affect food safety in tariff negotiations with the United States. This was said by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, during a television program of the public broadcaster NHK, reiterating the seriousness of the Tokyo executive approach regarding the issue of access to the agricultural market.
“We have to protect the security of Japanese citizens. We do not intend to make concessions on food safety”, referring to the different standards in the United States, starting from the presence of hormones in beef, the administration in general of antibiotics not compliant with animal welfare standards, chicken meat sanitized with chlorine in the slaughter and processing phase. Parameters that are also under examination by the regulatory authorities in Europe.
Ishiba also said that the expansion of liquefied natural gas imports will be examined as an exchange goods, considering that President Trump is giving priority to the elimination of the commercial deficit of his country with Japan. In recent years, the US has become the main LNG exporters to the world, despite the production process is far more expensive than the export of natural gas via Pipeline, and remains a very controversial energy production practice. Behind the boom of the American shale, analysts say, the questions about the environmental impact remain open: the extraction of the gas, obtained first with the fracking technology – the hydraulic crushing of the shale rocks, as well as polluting the aquifers, enters the atmosphere, aggravating the greenhouse effect.
