President Trump on Monday called for the removal of Japan's trade barriers, wanting to put U.S. companies "on a fair footing in Japan," Reuters reported.
"We have an unbelievably large imbalance, as you know, trade imbalance with Japan for many, many years, Japan having the big advantage," Trump said at a joint news conference in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Trump, who is making a four-day state visit to Japan, tweeted on Sunday that he expected that any major decisions on trade would be made after Japan's upper house election in July.
Abe also indicated a willingness to discuss trade, saying that both leaders had agreed to speed up their trade talks; but he didn't provide any information on the timing of a potential deal.
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Trump and Abe have also discussed the current trade war with China and North Korea's recent missile tests, topics to which the two leaders seem to have different approaches. Read more at Reuters.
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