{"id":244048,"date":"2025-07-07T01:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/244048\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T01:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:21:04","slug":"japans-top-trade-negotiator-akazawa-held-two-intense-phone-talks-with-lutnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/244048\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s top trade negotiator Akazawa, held two intense phone talks with Lutnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"128\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Japan&#8217;s top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, held two rounds of intensive phone talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick<\/p>\n<ul data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<li data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Thursday, then again on Saturday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"128\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Ahead of the July 9 expiration of a pause on a potential 24% reciprocal tariff on Japanese imports. Trump has hinted the final rate could be even higher<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"457\" data-end=\"795\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Despite ongoing efforts to avoid the tariff hike, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stressed that Japan would not compromise on its national interests, describing the negotiations as &#8220;extremely vigorous&#8221; and continuing right up to the deadline. <\/p>\n<ul data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<li data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Japan says it will remain in active coordination with the U.S. as talks progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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":"Japan&#8217;s top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, held two rounds of intensive phone talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,94786,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-244048","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-us-trade-talks","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114809333077042471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244048","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=244048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}