lots of ripoll lots of ri poll effects lots of ripoll effects of this trade warand lots of ripoll effectsrade war and this is one of them?m lots of ripoll effects of this trade war and this is one of them? it is, indeed. the japanese and us are hoping to get a head start when the japanese economy minister meets its us trade representative and counterpart. they are holding talks later today to lay the groundwork for a meeting between the us president and the prime minister shinzo abe. the president trump has made it clear he is unhappy with the two thirds of auto ex—boss and he wa nts to two thirds of auto ex—boss and he wants to have an agreement that addresses it. last year's us deficit with japan trade was third behind china. and mexico at $71 billion. according to the nikkei newspaper, japan could potentially lower ta riffs japan could potentially lower tariffs on us agricultural imports by lowering those figures. a great deal of japanese cars are exported to the us. what is interesting is that the us would have gotten those lower agricultural tariffs had they remained in the trans—pac