US EditionTrump’s Trade Deals Are a Tax on Americans
JAPAN, JUL 23 – The deal includes Japan's $550 billion investment in U.S. industries and a tariff cut on autos from 25% to 15%, projected to create hundreds of thousands of American jobs.
- Early this week, a photograph showed Dan Scavino claimed the trade card was rewritten at the last minute, containing inconsistencies.
- With the August 1 tariff deadline looming, the hand-altered trade deal was finalized days earlier, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called it a "pretty hard deadline."
- In his post, President Donald Trump announced a `massive` trade agreement that includes a 15% tariff rate and $550 billion in investments.
- Following the announcement, Japan’s Nikkei index rallied and the yen leapt, with three of four major banks gaining, as market optimism grew.
- Looking ahead, the trade deal could spur similar agreements with the EU and China, both facing August tariff deadlines, while strengthening US strategic leverage against China’s supply chains.
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The Daily Caller
Howard Lutnick Reveals How Trump Admin Secured Massive Trade Deal With Japan
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed to the Daily Caller how he negotiated a massive trade deal with Japan on behalf of the Trump administration.
US and Japan Enter New Trade Era with 15% Duty on Imports - Real News Now
This week, President Donald Trump revealed a new trade agreement, on this occasion, with Japan. The conditions set forward stipulate that Japanese imports will now incur a 15 percent duty upon their entry into the United States. The negotiations were intense; we had top-level engagement from both sides. According to the President, it’s a win-win deal for everyone. The United States had a total import of nearly $150 billion from Japan as of the p…
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Quote-unquote: A ‘massive deal’ and an ‘unprecedented attack’
Plus: WTO head stresses need for “deep reform.” Japan trade deal: Truth Social version. “We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made. Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs -- There has never been anything like it. Perhaps most importantly, Japan will open their Country to Trad…
San Bernardino Sun
Trump’s trade deals are a tax on Americans
This week, President Donald Trump announced yet another trade deal, this time with Japan. As reported by Reason Magazine, “Under the terms outlined by Trump in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, imports from Japan will be subject to a 15 percent tariff when they enter the United States.” “They had their top people here, and we worked on it long and hard. And it’s a great deal for everybody,” Trump said on Tuesday. Is it? Americans imported nearly $…
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