President Trump has threatened to impose a tariff on Mexican and Chinese imports, which wouldn’t create insurmountable challenges for Japanese firms producing cars and other products in these countries. However, his apparent determination to narrow the US trade deficit suggests that Japan could also be targeted directly. A tariff on Japanese exports would hit carmakers especially hard.
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