President Donald Trump has asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to buy a “huge amount” of U.S. farm products, according to a report from the Kyodo news agency.
The report cited Japanese and U.S. government sources for the information.
Soybeans and wheat were included in the request, Kyodo said, with the Japanese government said to be mulling its response.
The report indicated one possibility was to buy the products as food security for African countries and would be worth several hundred million dollars, including transportation costs.
Meanwhile, Trump took aim at Japan in wide-ranging comments while in Pennsylvania Tuesday, declaring while the U.S. imports “millions” of cars from Japan, all they buy from the U.S. was wheat.
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