{"id":1531427,"date":"2025-04-20T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1531427"},"modified":"2025-04-20T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:55:00","slug":"japan-considers-easing-car-safety-standards-as-part-of-potential-new-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/japan-considers-easing-car-safety-standards-as-part-of-potential-new-trade-deal\/1531427\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Considers Easing Car Safety Standards As Part Of Potential New Trade Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Japan Considers Easing Car Safety Standards As Part Of Potential New Trade Deal<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>It looks as though trade progress is being made with Japan, as concessions about automobiles were reported on this weekend, signaling that Trump administration could be heading towards a revised agreement with the key ally nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Japan may loosen auto safety rules for U.S. imports to address President Trump\u2019s concerns over the low number of American cars sold there, <em>Nikkei<\/em> reports. With differing safety standards between the two countries, Tokyo is eyeing crash test regulations as a possible trade concession, <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Economy\/Trade-war\/Trump-tariffs\/Japan-to-put-car-safety-standards-on-table-in-Trump-tariffs-talks\">according to Nikkei<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a White House meeting, Trump criticized Japan\u2019s trade surplus and poor U.S. auto sales. Cabinet-level talks focused on non-tariff barriers, particularly in the auto and agriculture sectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trump%20japan.jpg?itok=9y8IB_kZ\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan, a signatory to a 1958 U.N. pact on unified auto standards, maintains its own certification process, requiring separate approval for American imports\u2014a process that can take months. While the U.S. participates in discussions under the U.N. framework, it uses its own safety rules and lets automakers self-test.<\/p>\n<p>The Nikkei <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Economy\/Trade-war\/Trump-tariffs\/Japan-to-put-car-safety-standards-on-table-in-Trump-tariffs-talks\">report says<\/a> that the U.S. Trade Representative recently flagged Japan\u2019s crash test requirements as a non-tariff barrier, citing them as overly burdensome and unfair to U.S. carmakers. These safety standards\u2014especially for frontal and side collisions\u2014have long been a sticking point in trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>During past Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, Japan agreed to ease some requirements for U.S. imports, such as skipping certain tests like fire retardancy. It also expanded exemptions for low-volume American car sales. However, those TPP concessions faded after Trump withdrew the U.S. from the pact in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 04\/20\/2025 &#8211; 16:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/japan-considers-easing-car-safety-standards-part-potential-new-trade-deal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/japan-considers-easing-car-safety-standards-part-potential-new-trade-deal<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Considers Easing Car Safety Standards As Part Of Potential New Trade Deal It looks as though trade progress is being made with Japan, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1531428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6qor","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/trump20japan-mOskvr.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}