Japan, U.S. agree tariff talks making progress toward deal

Japan's chief tariff negotiator said Friday that he and U.S. Cabinet members agreed in their talks that they are making progress toward a potential tariff deal as early as June.After a meeting in Washington with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's minister in charge of economic revitalization, told reporters that they plan to hold another round of negotiations before a Group of Seven summit in mid-June.Akazawa noted, however, that Tokyo's stance to demand the United States remove all its additional tariffs on Japanese imports …READ FULL ARTICLE