{"id":49054,"date":"2025-09-07T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:39:14","slug":"u-s-tariffs-still-spell-big-pain-for-japans-small-automakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49054\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. tariffs still spell big pain for Japan&#8217;s small automakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump gave Japanese automakers some relief by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2025\/09\/05\/economy\/trump-signs-japan-tariff-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cutting his high U.S. tariffs on their vehicles<\/a>, but the reduced levies still mean big pain for Japan&#8217;s smaller car companies, which will stay under pressure in the crucial market.<\/p>\n<p>After months of diplomacy, Trump signed an order on Thursday cutting U.S. tariffs on imported Japanese autos to 15% from 27.5%, a rare bit of good news for Japan&#8217;s critical industry, which relies on the United States as its top market.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller automakers Mitsubishi Motors, Mazda and Subaru are less able to absorb the tariff shock than bigger rivals Toyota and Honda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump gave Japanese automakers some relief by cutting his high U.S. tariffs on their vehicles,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,36271,5483,356,179,18,19,17,36272,36274,36273,1255,3070,10604],"class_list":{"0":"post-49054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-carmakers","10":"tag-cars","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-mazda","17":"tag-mitsubishi-motors","18":"tag-subaru","19":"tag-tariffs","20":"tag-u-s","21":"tag-u-s-japan-relations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}