‘Investment, not tariffs,’ says Ishiba after a telephone talks with Trump before the 3 round round of talks. world News
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shigru Ishiba said on Friday that he held telephone talks with US President Donald Trump and agreed to discuss “productive” in the upcoming tariff talks between the two sides. “Investment, not tariffs,” told reporters after discussion. He said that Japan’s position to pursue Washington to leave all recent tariff measures is unchanged and in turn stands according to a plan to push for Japanese investment to make more jobs in the US. The two leaders interacted after Japan’s Chief Tariff Negotiator Economic Revolling Minister Ryosi Akajawa, led to Washington for the third round of talks with America Equal. In the first round of talks, the US did not agree with Japanese requests. Ishiba said he reminded Trump that Japan’s position was to scrap all recent tariffs on imports from Japan for US administration, making the US President no specific response. “I expressed my expectations for productive discussion, and we agreed,” Ishiba told reporters. The US is charging 25% tariffs on the import of autos, which is a main basis of Japan’s trade with the US and a major driver of development for the economy. Trump has rested some of those tariffs, but has high tariffs on steel and aluminum. Friday’s dialogue was requested by Trump and the two leaders discussed about 45 minutes on the boundary of the subjects, including both colleagues and the US President’s recent security cooperation between the recent Middle East, said Ishiba. He said that the two leaders also agreed to hold talks when both of them participate in a group of seven summit in Canada next month.
