{"id":13414,"date":"2025-09-18T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/japans-exports-to-the-us-continue-to-fall-hit-by-trumps-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:20:57","slug":"japans-exports-to-the-us-continue-to-fall-hit-by-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/japans-exports-to-the-us-continue-to-fall-hit-by-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s exports to the US continue to fall, hit by Trump&#8217;s tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/yuri-kageyama\">             <picture data-crop=\"60x60\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><source width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/2b61a1c\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1170x1170+0+238\/resize\/60x60!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F78%2F98%2F06b248884ce1bca5075277542d2d%2Fportrait2023-yuri-kageyama.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1758094292000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                                        <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>TOKYO (AP) &mdash; Japan&rsquo;s exports to the United States plummeted 13.8% in August compared to the same month the previous year, marking the fifth straight month of declines, as auto exports were hit by President Donald Trump&rsquo;s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Ministry data released Wednesday showed the rate of the drop in exports to the U.S. compared to the previous year worsened from a 10.1% slip in July.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. tariffs on Japanese automobiles and auto parts decreased from 27.5%, the amount Trump initially levied, to 15% this week, but that&rsquo;s still higher than the original 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&rsquo;s data reflect the month of August, when the tariffs were higher. Japan&rsquo;s overall exports were little changed, slipping 0.1%, as exports grew to Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The provisional data for August showed Japan&rsquo;s imports from the world fell 5.2% from a year ago. Imports from China grew 2.1%, while exports to China fell 0.5%. Imports from the U.S. grew 11.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to the world grew in food, gaining 18%, as well as in ships, growing by nearly 25%. Imports grew in computers, adding nearly 35% on-year, while aircraft rose 21%.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Yuri Kageyama is on Threads: <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@yurikageyama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@yurikageyama<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-tariffs-trump-trade-autos-exports-6c7cd6080420ee790d4a8372b35a925b\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TOKYO (AP) &mdash; Japan&rsquo;s exports to the United States plummeted 13.8% in August compared to the same month the previous year, marking the fifth straight month of declines, as auto exports were hit by President Donald Trump&rsquo;s tariffs. The Finance Ministry data released Wednesday showed the rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}