Trump Announces Trade Deal With Japan
Posted By: earlybird, 7/24/2025 1:13:22 PM
With an Aug. 1 deadline approaching, the United States has reached a trade agreement with Japan, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media on July 22. “I just signed ... maybe the largest deal in history,” Trump said at the White House. “We worked on it long and hard, and it’s a great deal for everybody. A lot different from the deals in the past, I can tell you that,” Trump said.(snip)Japan will invest $550 billion in the United States, which will receive 90 percent of the profits from those investments, according to Trump. “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs—There has never been anything like it,” he wrote.
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Trump Announces Trade Deal With Japan
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With an Aug. 1 deadline approaching, the United States has reached a trade agreement with Japan, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media on July 22.
“I just signed ... maybe the largest deal in history,” Trump said at the White House.
“We worked on it long and hard, and it’s a great deal for everybody. A lot different from the deals in the past, I can tell you that,” Trump said.(snip)Japan will invest $550 billion in the United States, which will receive 90 percent of the profits from those investments, according to Trump.
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