{"id":24140,"date":"2026-03-11T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=24140"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:55:14","slug":"wyden-merkley-crapo-call-on-trump-to-prioritize-opening-japanese-market-to-u-s-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-crapo-call-on-trump-to-prioritize-opening-japanese-market-to-u-s-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden, Merkley, Crapo Call on Trump to Prioritize Opening Japanese Market to U.S. Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Jeff Merkley, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, with Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today asked Donald Trump to prioritize gaining market access for U.S. fresh potatoes during Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae\u2019s upcoming visit to the United States.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ending Japan\u2019s restrictions on U.S. fresh potatoes would result in an estimated $150 million a year in new U.S. exports, benefitting farming communities in Oregon and nationwide.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cU.S. potato growers produce the best potatoes in the world.\u00a0 International trade and foreign export markets are critical to the U.S. potato industry,\u201d Wyden, Merkley, Crapo, and other lawmakers from the Senate and House wrote to Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWith low commodity prices and increased input costs this year, the potato sector, and specialty crops more broadly, are facing a major economic crisis.\u00a0 Japan represents a massive market with significant export opportunities for American potato growers,\u201d continued the legislators. \u201cSecuring this long-delayed market access petition and unlocking the critical Japanese export market would make a meaningful difference for potato growers in our states and across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Oreg\u00f3n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/oda\/agriculture\/Documents\/Product%20Sheets\/OREGON%20POTATOES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ranks fourth among the states<\/a> for production of potatoes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2024\/09\/its-official-oregon-has-a-state-vegetable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the official state vegetable<\/a>. The Pacific Northwest accounts for more than 50% of all U.S. production.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leer la carta completa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/crapo-wyden_japan_potato_market_access_letter_to_potus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Jeff Merkley, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, with Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today asked Donald Trump to prioritize gaining market access for U.S. fresh potatoes during Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae\u2019s upcoming visit to the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":18845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[42,43,139,131,38],"class_list":["post-24140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-agriculture","tag-bipartisan-actions","tag-budget","tag-economy","tag-foreign-policy-and-national-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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