Terms of Trade
Inside the Mad Dash to Seal Trump’s Japan Deal
U.S. President Donald Trump, and Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, in Osaka in June.
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It was the trade deal that seemed to come together overnight. So much so, that even Japan was taken off guard by the speed of President Donald Trump’s declaration at a press briefing with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Group of Seven meetings last month that the nations had struck a trade pact.