Why can we not get the Honda GB350 in the US?

Fair, but fit trumps flag for me.

Solid advice, wish someone told me sooner.

From over here it looks very different.

A simple, gorgeous, torquey little single that sells everywhere except America. It is exactly the honest bike new riders keep asking for. Is it emissions, margins, or Honda just reading the US as a big-bike market?

Margins and dealer floor space, mostly. A cheap single is hard to sell profitably next to a Rebel 500. The market reads Americans as up-sell targets.

Solid advice, wish someone told me sooner.

Here it is the perfect city bike. I do not understand why the US only imports the loud and the large.

You can import one once it is 25 years old, or grey-market with a lot of paperwork. I have run the math and it is rarely worth it for a budget bike.