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NEW YORK -- Japanese and
American negotiators will look
to pave the way for concrete
bilateral
trade talks when they
meet this week, as Washingto
n seeks to equalize
what it sees as
an unbalanced relationship and
Tokyo races to avoid
damaging
auto tariffs.
Ahead of the second round of this week's "free, fair and
reciprocal" cabinet-level trade talks, Prime
Minister Shinzo
Abe dined with President Donald Trump
on Sunday night at Trump Tower --
the same place where Abe became
the first world leader to meet face
to face with the then-president-elect in November 2016.
The American president has
threatened to slap tariffs on
automotive
imports from Japan,
which would deal a huge blow to
the Asian nation's
manufacturing sector.
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