Trump says he's joining Bessent and Lutnick for trade negotiations with Japanese at the White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s joining immoderate of his apical economical advisers connected Wednesday for negotiations astatine the White House implicit tariffs and commercialized with a apical Japanese authoritative who is traveling to Washington for the talks.

The Republican president said successful a station connected his societal media level that he’ll be the gathering alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, apical economical advisers with a cardinal relation successful his commercialized and tariff policies.

Trump precocious announced a circular of planetary tariffs but past rapidly enactment them connected clasp for 90 days aft the markets tanked.

The determination enactment Japan’s 24% across-the-board tariff connected hold, but a 10% baseline tariff and a 25% tariff connected cars, car parts, alloy and aluminum exports to the U.S. stay successful place.

“Japan is coming successful contiguous to negociate Tariffs, the outgo of subject support, and ‘TRADE FAIRNESS.’ I volition be the meeting, on with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries,” Trump wrote successful the societal media post. “Hopefully thing tin beryllium worked retired which is bully (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!”

Japan’s main commercialized negotiator, Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa, was headed to Washington connected a ngo to person U.S. officials to region Trump's tariff measures against the East Asian state of the United States.

Akazawa is to clasp his archetypal talks with Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer done Friday.

“I americium prepared for the talks,” Akazawa told reporters astatine Tokyo’s Haneda Airport earlier boarding his formation to Washington. “I volition negociate successful bid to firmly support our nationalist interest.”

He said that some Bessent and Greer are “known to beryllium pro-Japan and professionally talented” and that helium hopes to physique a narration of spot with them. “I judge we tin person bully talks toward a win-win narration that volition service nationalist involvement for some Japan and the United States,” helium said.

Japan is among the archetypal countries to commencement negotiations with the U.S.

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Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo.