You suggest that Japan should import rice.

At one point he made a good profit during a famine in China by importing rice.

Hanoi was forced to import rice from the Soviet Union.

However, importing rice is outlawed in Japan and is among its most sensitive trade issues.

Its nearly obsessive refusal to import rice was broken by a bad harvest that opened market shelves to California grains.

But the government would import rice if needed to cushion cost increases.

Nor would trading companies seeking to import rice or textiles from Vietnam.

The deal allows Indonesia to import rice each year from 2012 through 2016 up to the specified cap.

And if they wish they can also import rice for their own use.

From this same report, it is noted that, among the incoming goods in Bohol, the province had been importing rice over the years.