Not published.
Built for you.
Choose the lines you actually buy and we assemble the pack for those and no others. Grades, carriage temperatures, customs headings, what each one costs to land at your port, and every figure with its source printed beside it.
Tell us what you buy,
not what we sell.
Pick as many as apply. Every line you choose adds its own section, and the ones you leave out are left out, which is the difference between this and a brochure.
Five pieces, for every line
you chose.
Not five pieces about the company. Five about the product you asked about, which is a different document entirely.
The specification
Grade, pack, net against gross, glaze where it applies, the carriage temperature and the customs heading for your broker to confirm. The document a claim is settled against, sent before you order rather than quoted after.
Where it comes from, and how much exists
The prefecture, the producer where we can name them, and the national production for that line in a year. Japan ships about 355 tonnes of real wasabi annually, for the whole country. You should know that before anybody promises you a volume.
The duty position, for your destination
Checked this month rather than last year. Japanese beef pays 26.4 percent into the United States from the first week of January because a shared quota fills. Seafood carries a tariff the land lines do not. The same box lands at a different cost in Rotterdam, and you get both figures.
What the market actually pays
Published trade statistics and wholesale quotations, with the source and the date printed next to every figure, so you can hold our offer and anybody else's against the same numbers.
What we do not know yet
The open questions on your lines, listed rather than buried. It is the half of a catalogue nobody else sends, and it is the fastest way for you to judge whether we are worth your time.
A sample, then
the order.
- A sample, drawn from the grade on your quote. Not a presentation box and not the best piece we could find. The grade you would actually be buying, because a sample of anything else proves nothing to either of us. We do not mark it up, and you cover the freight on it.
- If you already know the product, skip it. Plenty of buyers have been importing this for years and do not need us to prove what a 3S scallop is. Say so and we go straight to quoting the order.
- Then the order, against the same specification. The grade, count, net against gross, glaze and carriage temperature from the sample are the terms the order is held to. If what arrives is not what the sample was, that is our problem and not a conversation.
One line open, seven on request.
- Japanese WagyuOpen nowBlack wagyu from Miyazaki, bought direct from the farm rather than through a trading house, with organic JAS certified lots available.
- Japanese Kobe BeefAsk usTajima cattle born, raised and slaughtered in Hyogo, certified by the association that owns the name. The most counterfeited beef in the world, and the one with the strictest paper trail.
- Japanese WasabiAsk usWater grown rhizome from a named valley. The most researched line we have and the one nobody else can reliably supply.
- Japanese ScallopAsk usHokkaido adductor from the Okhotsk fishery, graded by count. The only line with a live conversation and a public price series to check it against.
- Japanese MatchaAsk usStone milled tencha from Uji, Nishio or Kagoshima. A market in genuine shortage, where the best makers have moved to allocation only.
- Japanese HamachiAsk usJapanese amberjack, farmed in Kagoshima and Nagasaki. The other half of Japan's seafood trade with the United States, so the buyer is the scallop buyer.
- Japanese AppleAsk usAomori fruit, sold as a luxury gift item across Asia. Admissible to the United States, but under the heaviest treatment regime of anything we carry.
- Japanese SakeAsk usJunmai, ginjo and daiginjo from named breweries. A product we can get, into a US market that is currently shrinking.