US President Donald Trump said this week, he did not believe that the United States will make a trade agreement with Japan before the next week’s deadline to re -establish global rates that had stopped three months ago.
If Trump threatens to impose a pension 35 per cent on Japan 35 per cent, if there is no trade agreement, especially in the US selling rice and car.
This has created concern among the automobile and electronic manufacturers in Japan, whose exports to the United States fuel the Japanese economy.
Here is what we know about the US-Japan trade discussion.
What did Trump say about the trade agreement with Japan?
Most of Washington’s trade partners are looking for trade deals as the July 9 deadline.
Trade discussion Has continued for a long time between the United States and Japan. Japan’s main trade negotiations and Minister of Economy, Royce Akazawa, was arranging for the eighth and Sunday of the United States in the early weekend, Japanese Broadcaster TV Ashi said on Wednesday.
The US Federal Data had a USD deficit of $ 69.4 billion with Japan in 2024. Trump is trying to close it. But this week, he expressed doubts as to whether Washington and Tokyo could reached the trade agreement.
Trump said on Air Force One on Air Force One on Tuesday, “We have dealt with Japan. I am not sure if we are going to contract with Japan.
“They and others have been so bad that they and others have been tearing up to 40 years that it is really difficult to contract for them.”
Why Trump has threatened Japan’s new rates?
On July 9, Trump threatened to impose a “per cent or 35 per cent” rate on Japan. The basic rate on goods imported from Japan to the United States has remained at the same place.
When Trump announced them on April 2Liberation day“The enthusiastic rate, he unveiled 24 per cent of the rates for Japan, in which the car, aluminum and steel except for steel.
Trump says he does not plan to pause for higher, enthusiasts.
Once they come back to place, the vehicles and cars in Japan have to face 25 percent of the rates in other countries. Based on the order signed by Trump on June 4, the import of aluminum and steel from all countries, including Japan, has to face 50 percent.
Trump is also zeroing Japan in the sale of rice, accusing Japan not buying rice in Japan. “I have a lot of respect for Japan, they will not take our rice, and they still have a great shortage of rice,” he wrote on his truth social platform on Monday. “We have just been sending them a letter, and we like to be a business partner for many years,” Trump added without specifying any information about the letter.
Trump claimed that Japan does not buy cars from the United States. “We did not give them a car in 10 years,” he told reporters on Air Force One this week. During the interview of Fox News broadcast on June १ June, Trump also said that Japan does not buy American car and added: “This is not right.”
Trump said this week, “What I am going to do is write a letter to them,” We are very grateful to you. We know that we cannot do what we need and so you will give 30 percent, 35 percent or what we have fixed, “Trump said this week. “Because you have a very big trade deficit with Japanese, as you know and it is very unjust for Americans.”
Does Japan buy cars and rice from America?
Yes. Against what Trump told reporters this week, Japan bought $ 4 354.7 million rice from the United States from May 2024 to April 2025, according to the trade data research group, observatory observatory (OEC).
Japanese rice imports from the United States have increased due to the price of rice rising locally Extended?? In 223, a very heat wave received at least rice crop, which stored the manufacturers and manufacturers of rice, which is available at the beginning of 224.
In addition, on August 8, 2024, South Japan suffered an earthquake, which caused customers to store rice and create rice deficiency. The government has decided to release the rice from its own emergency reserves.
Statistics from the Japan Automobile Importer Association have also shown that Japan imported 14,724 US passenger vehicles worth $ 1.04 billion in 2024.
However, there is a outcry from the sale of Japanese cars from the sale of the United States. In 223, for example, Japan exported a B41 billion car to the United States while importing only $ 1.25 billion cars from the United States, according to OEC.
Why did trade discussions between Japan and the United States?
On June 7, the Japanese government faces domestic pressure in the National Upper House elections. The agricultural sector has traditionally become an important group of voting for the Japanese people. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Liberal Democratic Party.
Akazawa, a trade negotiation, said on Tuesday that Japan would not renounce his agricultural sector during trade discussions with the United States.
“I have repeatedly said that agriculture is the foundation of the country. Our role in the negotiations in the United States remains: we will not participate in the discussion of the sacrificial sector,” Akazawa told a media conference.
Ishiba is also opposed to any trade agreement with Trump, which does not return the rate on the car.
“Japan is different from other countries because we are the largest investors in the United States and are creating employment,” Ishiba said during a discussion with the opposition leaders on Wednesday. “Since our basic focus is on the investment rather than the rate, we will protect our national interest.”
Moreover, Japan is in a strong position in many other countries because it is the largest foreign holder of the US debt. According to recent news, Japan has more than $ 1 trillion in US Treasury Securities, which could benefit from trade discussions.
Has Trump responded to high rate threats by Japan?
Japan has refused to comment on it so far.
At a press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, Japanese Deputy Chief Minister Cabinet Secretary Kazhuhiko Aaki said: “We are aware of what President Trump said, but we do not comment on every comment made by American government officials.
How much depends on Japan’s economy on US exports?
Japan has a huge debt of the United States, but it is more dependent on the US for exporting other ways. According to OEC, the US has the largest export market in Japan, with a total of 9.1.1 percent of Japanese exports.
In 23, only 3.3 percent of the US exports to Japan. That year, the United States exported $.7 billion petroleum gas in Japan.
