Japanese Wagyu
和牛Black wagyu from Miyazaki, bought direct from the farm rather than through a trading house, with organic JAS certified lots available.
Specification, not suggestion.
Everything on this page is either a published figure with a source or a gap we have written down. Nothing is a guess dressed as a fact.
Readiness: 4 of 6. We answer six questions about every line before we sell it: supply, cost, price, regulatory, buyers, margin. This one has 4 of them answered.
| Detail | What we state |
|---|---|
| Grade | A5, with the beef marbling score stated separately |
| Origin | Miyazaki, with the farm and the establishment named on the quote |
| Certification | Organic JAS on certified lots, certifier and number stated per lot |
| Carriage | Chilled 0 to 2 C by air, about 60 days of life, or frozen at minus 18 |
| US duty | 26.4 percent once the tariff rate quota is filled, which it was on 6 January 2026 |
| Customs heading | 0201 or 0202, to be confirmed by your broker |
What we know, and what we do not.
Most suppliers answer the first three and let you discover the other three after you have ordered. All six are here, including the ones where the honest answer is that nobody has looked yet.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Supply | Bought direct from the Miyazaki producer, who already exports and holds organic JAS certification on part of the herd. Supply is the one thing on this list that is not a question. |
| Cost | Not answered. The buying price from the farm has not been fixed, and until it is, no margin on this line is real. |
| Price | A5 runs 200 to 500 USD per kg depending on cut, region and marbling score. US retail for A5 ribeye at BMS 10 to 12 from Miyazaki or Kagoshima is 200 to 250 USD per lb. |
| Regulatory | THE PROBLEM. Japan holds FSIS country equivalence, but the slaughter and processing establishment must appear on the FSIS eligible list and only a handful in Japan do, in Kagoshima, Gunma and Miyazaki. Worse, the US beef tariff rate quota was exhausted on 6 January 2026, roughly 99 percent filled by Brazilian shipments, so Japanese wagyu arriving after that pays 26.4 percent. |
| Buyers | Fine dining and hotel accounts, which is why this is priority one and also why any existing exclusivity on the farm's side has to be read before anything is offered. |
| Margin | Cannot be computed until the buying price is set and the tariff position is confirmed. A 26.4 percent duty on a 300 USD per kg product is 79 USD a kilo and it will decide this line on its own. |
The things that turn a good price into a bad one.
The quota
Exhausted in the first week of January two years running. Check the position before every offer, not before every quarter.
The establishment
Must be on the FSIS eligible foreign establishment list. A farm's reputation does not substitute for a plant's listing.
Exclusivity
Any arrangement the farm already has must be read before Marco Polo JP offers this to anybody.
What we would need to quote this properly.
- The buying price
- The exclusivity scope
- Which FSIS listed plant
Sources
- FSIS eligible foreign establishments list
- US beef tariff rate quota reporting, January 2026
- Producer records held on file
What leaves Japan this month.
Once a month: the prices that moved, the reason they moved, and what we can allocate before it is spoken for. Written for people who buy, by the people doing the buying.
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