Tokyo, Feb. 16 -- Japan is again asking the United States for a waiver from the tariffs Washington is imposing, including the so-called "mutual tariffs," Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said after his conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
"I conveyed our position that Japan should not be subject to measures known as mutual tariffs," Iwaya told journalists.
In particular, Iwaya asked to exempt Japan from the 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed by the United States. Tokyo is also asking for an exception to the so-called "mutual tariffs," the decree on the introduction of which was signed by US President Donald Trump last Thursday. This measure involves th...