Panel Discussion: “US-Japan Economic Relations under the New Leaders”

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President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 60% tariffs on imports from China, 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10% on imports from the rest of the world. Three weeks after the inauguration, what are the prospects for those tariffs? If those are really implemented, what will Japan do? Will Japanese manufacturers just suffer huge declines in exports to the United States? Will Japanese manufacturers increase tariff-jumping investment in the U.S.? Will it turn out that they have already shifted enough production to the U.S. to avoid the negative impacts of tariffs entirely? If China and the EU retaliate against the U.S. with their tariffs, a tariff war is likely to harm the global trades and cross-border investment. How will Japanese manufacturers respond?

Panelists
David WEINSTEIN (Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University;
Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School)
ITO Keiko (Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University)
TODO Yasuyuki (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)

Moderators
Takeo HOSHI (Director, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)
Takatoshi ITO (Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, SIPA and CJEB)