USGC Sends Condolences to Japan on Former PM Assassination

Japan’s longest-serving leader and former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has died after being shot July 7 at a political campaign event in the city of Nara.

安倍于2006年至2007年担任总理，然后由于疾病而辞职。

He was re-elected in 2012 and served until 2020. Famous for bringing his economic policies, called倍量, that had three arrows of monetary, fiscal and structural reform, Abe and former President Obama were the leaders and drivers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that later became theComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CP-TPP).

Japan is a longtime market for U.S corn, sorghum, barley, ethanol and co-products.

“Our hearts go out to Japan at this critical time, and we are sorry for such a great loss," saidU.S. Grains CouncilPresident and CEO Ryan LeGrand.

"Prime Minister Abe was a leader in many ways, including growing trade between the U.S. and Japan. He continued the long, close friendship between the U.S. and Japan that goes back even farther than the opening of the then U.S. Feed Grains Council’s first international office in Tokyo in 1961. We are saddened today for our friends, partners and the people of Japan.”

In the 2020/21 marketing year, Japan was a top market across all commodities, ranking as the third-largest market for grains in all forms with exports of more than 14.5 million metric tons (equal to 573.5 million bushels), valued at $6.9 billion.

日本购买了美国玉米的1,120万吨（4.4423亿蒲式耳）；美国高粱的33,700吨（130万蒲式耳）；美国大麦和大麦产品的18,300公吨（841,100蒲式耳）；475,560吨美国DDGS；在2020/2021的营销年度，估计总共有8910万加仑（3,160万蒲式耳）的美国乙醇（ETBE）出口中的美国乙醇。

—Feed & Grain Staff