The Japanese minister Muto feels the American secretary Lutnick
Japanese Muto Muto Minister of Commerce said today that Tokyo told Washington that the new US duties that include a 24% tax on Japanese imports are “extremely deplorable”. Tokyo also said that the tariff offensive of American President Donald Trump could violate the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the commercial treaty between the two countries.
“I communicated that the unilateral tariff measures adopted by the United States are extremely deplorable and I again urged with force not to apply them to Japan,” said Muto adding that he has spoken with the secretary of American trade Howard Lutnick before Trump’s announcement. “We nourish serious concerns about the conformity” of American duties “to the rules of the WTO and the commercial agreement between Japan and the United States”, he told his part of the Japanese government Yoshimasa Hayashi.
