Japan, Trump and tariff
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View PDF After more than three months of formal negotiations and many more months of speculation about the Trump administration’s trade and economic policy toward Japan, Washington and Tokyo have agreed to a trade deal.
The new U.S.-Japan trade deal lowers tariffs and strengthens economic ties, helping challenge China's regional aggression and instability.
After months of fraught negotiations with the United States, Japan clinched a deal just days before punitive tariffs were scheduled to take effect.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a trade deal with Vietnam, under which Vietnamese imports to the United States will be subject to a 20% tariff while the United States will have ...
Japan is the United States’ fourth-largest trading partner in goods, and the two countries did $217.6 billion worth of two-way goods trade in 2018.
President Trump will get to decide where to invest Japanese money and the United States will keep 90 percent of the profits, the White House said.