{"id":196478,"date":"2025-06-19T06:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196478\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:48:11","slug":"most-japanese-firms-unfazed-by-u-s-tariffs-support-sales-tax-relief-reuters-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196478\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Japanese firms unfazed by U.S. tariffs, support sales tax relief \u2014 Reuters survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"439\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">A new Reuters corporate survey shows that 71% of Japanese companies say the impact of U.S. tariffs is within expectations, with 84% keeping their investment plans unchanged despite a looming 24% tariff threat on some goods and an existing 25% tariff on autos.<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"623\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<li data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"530\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"530\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Many firms are taking a long-term view, noting the Trump administration\u2019s limited term.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"623\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"623\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Most companies said their business strategies remain steady in the face of trade friction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"941\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">On domestic policy, the survey revealed six in ten firms back a sales tax cut, amid rising inflation and ahead of Japan\u2019s July upper house election. However, nearly two-thirds oppose funding it through government bond issuance, citing concerns over Japan\u2019s ageing population and rising social security costs.<\/p>\n<p>  Later this year,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\">ForexLive.com<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n  is evolving into<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\"><b data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\">investingLive.com<\/b><\/a>, a new destination for intelligent market updates and smarter<br \/>\n  decision-making for investors and traders alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Reuters corporate survey shows that 71% of Japanese companies say the impact of U.S. tariffs is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,79806,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-japan-sales-tax-cut","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114708696491410872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}