Japan

Japan's foreign ministry says President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to prepare for the July meeting when they met at the White House on June 7.

The United States, the European Union and Japan on Thursday pledged to tackle “non market-oriented policies and practices” by developing stronger World Trade Organization rules for industrial subsidies and state-owned enterprises, cooperating on technology transfer and laying out a list of conditions they say define a market economy.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray on Thursday pledged to cooperate to get the deal into force quickly.

“Faced with the severe situation of rising protectionism and unilateralism, China, Japan and South Korea should hold together firmly to support free trade and jointly defend rules-based multilateral trade system.”

The U.S. and Japan have agreed to “intensify” talks on “free, fair and reciprocal trade deals,” President Trump and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, said on Wednesday.

A senior Trump administration official on Friday sought to lower expectations that the U.S. might rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership as President Trump prepares for a meeting next week with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- a leader of the push to implement the TPP-11 without the U.S.

South Korea and Japan this week notified the World Trade Organization of their intent to suspend concessions equivalent to the amount of trade affected by U.S. safeguard measures on imports of solar products and large residential washers.

The European Union and Japan have asked to join the United States in consultations with China at the World Trade Organization over what the U.S. alleges are Chinese violations of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property.