{"id":35376,"date":"2025-07-31T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35376\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:56:17","slug":"japans-akazawa-says-u-s-auto-tariff-cut-may-take-time-nhk-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35376\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Akazawa says U.S. auto tariff cut may take time, NHK reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan&#8217;s top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said it might take some time for U.S. tariffs on automobiles to be lowered to 15%, public broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Under a bilateral trade deal clinched with Japan earlier this month, the U.S. agreed to lower &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs on goods and a levy on automobiles both to 15% from the current 25%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Speaking to reporters after the government&#8217;s task-force meeting on U.S. tariffs, Akazawa said he expects the U.S. to cut the &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs to 15% from Friday as agreed upon by the two countries, according to NHK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">But he said the cut to tariffs on Japanese automobiles &#8220;may take some time,&#8221; adding that Tokyo would step up requests for President Donald Trump to sign an executive order at an early date, NHK said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Japan&#8217;s auto sector accounts for more than a quarter of its U.S. exports and is a key engine of the fragile economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan&#8217;s top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said it might take some time for U.S. tariffs on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,941,32363,26332],"class_list":{"0":"post-35376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-nhk","14":"tag-ryosei-akazawa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}