{"id":49898,"date":"2025-06-07T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=49898"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:32:36","slug":"japan-progress-but-no-agreement-yet-in-tariff-talks-with-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/japan-progress-but-no-agreement-yet-in-tariff-talks-with-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: &#8220;Progress&#8221; but No &#8220;Agreement&#8221; Yet in Tariff Talks with the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan announced on Saturday that it is making &#8220;progress&#8221; in talks with Washington to ease the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on its imports, but noted that both sides have yet to find a &#8220;common ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump had imposed a 10% tariff on Japan, similar to other countries, despite Tokyo being a key U.S. ally and its largest investor. He also imposed higher tariffs on cars, steel, and aluminum.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Trump levied &#8220;retaliatory&#8221; tariffs of 24% on Japan, though these were later suspended until early July, along with tariffs on other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is seeking to reduce or eliminate all tariffs announced by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>During the fifth round of talks, Ryosuke Akazawa, Tokyo\u2019s trade envoy, told Japanese reporters in Washington: \u201cWe have made further progress toward reaching an agreement.\u201d However, he added, \u201cWe have not yet found a point of agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akazawa said Tokyo hopes to conclude an agreement \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d but noted that the talks may still be ongoing when the G7 summit convenes on June 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan announced on Saturday that it is making &#8220;progress&#8221; in talks with Washington to ease the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on its imports, but noted that both sides have yet to find a &#8220;common ground.&#8221; Trump had imposed a 10% tariff on Japan, similar to other countries, despite Tokyo being a key U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49898","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\/49898","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=49898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49900,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49898\/revisions\/49900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}