On Thursday, the White House announced that President Donald Trump has issued a executive order implementing the official, reciprocal trade deal between the U.S. and Japan.
🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵@POTUS has signed an Executive Order officially implementing the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement. pic.twitter.com/BsmH1x2wGk
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 4, 2025
“Under the Agreement, the United States will apply a baseline 15 percent tariff on nearly all Japanese imports entering the United States,” the EO reads, “the alongside separate sector-specific treatment for automobiles and automobile parts; aerospace products; generic pharmaceuticals; and natural resources that are not naturally available or produced in the United States.”
“This new tariff framework, combined with expanded United States exports and investment-driven production,” it continues, “will help reduce the trade deficit with Japan and restore greater balance to the overall United States trade position.”
Next, the document moves on to what Japan will do on its part, saying that “[s]pecifically, the Government of Japan is working toward an expedited implementation of a 75 percent increase of United States rice procurements within the Minimum Access rice scheme and purchases of United States agricultural goods, including corn, soybeans, fertilizer, bioethanol (including for sustainable aviation fuel), as well as other United States products, in amounts totaling $8 billion per year.”
“The Government of Japan is also working to accept for sale in Japan United States-manufactured and United States-safety-certified passenger vehicles without additional testing,” the executive order adds. “Separately, Japan will purchase United States-made commercial aircraft, as well as United States defense equipment.”
RedState previously wrote about the framework for the deal getting hammered out in late July, which the president announced during a White House event with congressional Republicans, as my colleague Katie Jerkovich wrote.
🚨 @POTUS announces that he just signed a MASSIVE trade deal with Japan.
“I think maybe the largest deal in history… it’s a great deal for everybody.” pic.twitter.com/IIJhHOjmup
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 22, 2025
Pres. Trump added that another part of the agreement would be hundreds of billions in investment in the United States. As Jerkovich wrote,
In a Truth Social post, Trump elaborated on the deal and wrote:
We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made. Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 billion into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it.
Perhaps most importantly, Japan will open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things. Japan will pay Reciprocal Tariffs to the United States of 15%. This is a very exciting time for the United States of America, and especially for the fact that we will continue to always have a great relationship with the Country of Japan. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Trump mentions this preliminary agreement in his September 4th executive order:
“On July 22, 2025, I announced a framework agreement between the United States and Japan (Agreement), which lays the foundation for a new era of United States-Japan trade relations grounded in principles of reciprocity and our shared national interests. The Agreement establishes a tariff framework that levels the playing field for American producers and accounts for American national security needs.”
It followed an Oval Office visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in February.
You can read the full executive order here.
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