Good grief. Japan effectively paid a half-trillion-dollar bribe to Trump for the privilege of punishing its own industries with vastly higher tariffs. Don't be fooled by misdirection re "lower" tariffs. They went up, a lot.

https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade-war/trump-tariffs/japan-s-550bn-us-investment-pledge-subject-to-trump-s-whims

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