TOKYO (Reuters) -A Trump administration request that Japan buy more U.S. rice caused this week’s snag in bilateral trade talks as Tokyo “strongly objected” to the condition, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday.

Japan’s top tariff negotiator abruptly cancelled a U.S. trip on Thursday over unspecified “points that need to be discussed at the administrative level”, the top government spokesperson said, as the two sides try to hammer out details of a July agreement on a reduced 15% tariff on U.S. imports from Japan.

The Nikkei, citing Japanese government officials it did not identify, said a revised order from President Donald Trump included a commitment for Japan to buy more American rice.

One official criticised the proposal as an “interference in domestic affairs,” the business dai

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