Shigeru Ishiba, the Prime Minister of Japan, is considering visiting the United States to meet with President Donald Trump just before the G7 summit, which will be held in Canada on the 15th (local time) to discuss tariff issues.
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the 1st that the Japanese government expects to announce an agreement coinciding with President Trump's birthday on June 14.
According to the newspaper, Ryosei Akazawa, the Japanese minister in charge of tariffs, visited the United States earlier this month for tariff negotiations, and based on the results, Prime Minister Ishiba's visit to the U.S. is likely to be finalized.
Previously, the United States and Japan held the fourth round of tariff negotiations in Washington, D.C. on the 30th.
Japan has proposed ▲expanding agricultural imports ▲improving systems for expanding automobile imports ▲cooperation in shipbuilding and rare earths ▲increasing investments in the U.S. as 'bargaining chips,' and has also suggested purchasing billions of dollars worth of American semiconductors; however, significant differences in views between the two sides remain.
The United States maintains that negotiations are only possible for the additional tariffs applied differentially by country (Japan's is 14%), on top of the uniformly applied 10% reciprocal tariff, but Japan argues for a reassessment of all tariffs, including the automobile tariff that accounts for approximately 30% of its exports to the U.S.