{"id":48315,"date":"2025-05-11T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48315"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:12:03","slug":"japan-seeks-to-eliminate-all-u-s-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/japan-seeks-to-eliminate-all-u-s-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Seeks to Eliminate All U.S. Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba confirmed on Sunday that he will seek the elimination of all tariffs in trade negotiations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Fuji TV\u2019s morning program, Ishiba said that \u201cdiscussions are gradually converging,\u201d and noted that Tokyo\u2019s relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump is \u201csurprisingly good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the agreement announced Thursday between Washington and London \u2014 under which high tariffs on British car exports will be reduced while maintaining a basic 10% tariff \u2014 Ishiba said this was \u201cjust one model\u201d of trade deals, but added, \u201cwe must aim to bring tariffs down to zero percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ishiba added that Washington\u2019s imposition of high tariffs on car imports would make them more expensive for American consumers. He questioned, \u201cFor the sake of the U.S. economy as well, shouldn\u2019t these tariffs be lowered?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Friday that the U.S. will maintain a basic 10% tariff on imports even after trade deals are concluded, adding that exemptions may be granted when countries present substantial trade proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba confirmed on Sunday that he will seek the elimination of all tariffs in trade negotiations with the United States. Speaking on Fuji TV\u2019s morning program, Ishiba said that \u201cdiscussions are gradually converging,\u201d and noted that Tokyo\u2019s relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump is \u201csurprisingly good.\u201d Regarding the agreement announced Thursday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48316,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48315\/revisions\/48316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}