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Japan typically maintains low tariffs, a fact that should come as no surprise: the Japanese people are famously not stupid.
As an island nation with few domestic natural resources beyond its hardworking and productive people, Japan must import virtually all of its energy (both for powering vehicles and for generating electricity), the bulk of its food, and hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of industrial inputs, machinery, electronics, and medicines.
