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Lighthizer Calls on Japanese Trade Minister to Help Balance Bilateral Trade

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on June 29 hosted Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko for a meeting at which Lighthizer stressed the “importance of addressing the bilateral trade imbalance, given the very high and decades-long U.S. goods…

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trade deficit with Japan,” USTR said (here). Lighthizer and Seko also stressed the need to deepen enforcement cooperation to address unfair trade practices by third countries contributing to global economic imbalances, USTR said.