{"id":412231,"date":"2025-07-02T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=412231"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:47:51","slug":"trump-threatens-japan-with-up-to-35-tariff-ahead-of-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/07\/02\/412231.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens Japan with up to 35% tariff ahead of deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON (AFP):<\/strong> US President Donald Trump said Tuesday a trade deal with Japan was unlikely before the July 9 deadline, threatening to raise tariffs on Japanese imports to 30 or 35 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump criticized Japan&#8217;s reluctance to accept imports of US rice, as well as the imbalance in auto trade between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure we&#8217;re going to make a deal,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I doubt it with Japan, they&#8217;re very tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Trump imposed a sweeping 10 percent tariff on imports from most trading partners in April, he unveiled &#8212; then paused &#8212; higher rates on dozens of economies to allow room for negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>This pause expires July 9, meaning the elevated rates are due to kick in next week if countries fail to reach agreements with Washington to avert them.<\/p>\n<p>To date, only two pacts have been announced. One was a broad framework with Britain and the other a deal to temporarily lower steep tit-for-tat duties with China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he was going to write a letter to Japan, asking them to &#8220;pay a 30 percent, 35 percent or whatever the number is that we determine&#8221; because of the &#8220;big trade deficit&#8221; with Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very unfair to the American people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, a key US ally and its biggest investor, is subject to the same 10 percent baseline tariffs imposed on most nations plus steeper levies on cars, steel and aluminium.<\/p>\n<p>Ryosei Akazawa, Tokyo&#8217;s trade envoy, told Japanese reporters in Washington last month that some progress had been made during a fifth round of talks with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added: &#8220;We&#8217;ve not been able to find a point of agreement yet&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AFP): US President Donald Trump said Tuesday a trade deal with Japan was unlikely before the July 9 deadline, threatening to raise tariffs on Japanese imports to 30 or 35 percent. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump criticized Japan&#8217;s reluctance to accept imports of US rice, as well as the imbalance in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":350997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-412231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412232,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412231\/revisions\/412232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412231"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=412231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}