Japan’s finance minister calls US Treasury holdings ‘a card’ in tariff talks with Trump

Finance Minister: All Cards Should Be on Table in Tariff Negotitations; Japan Largest Foreign Holder of U.S. Bonds

Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said that Japan should conduct tariff negotiations with the United States with all potential cards on the table, during a TV Tokyo program that aired on Friday.

Japan is one of the largest holders of US government bonds. In the customs dispute with the United States, Tokyo might use them as leverage, according to Finance Minister Kato. A bold move by US vassals. Japan's finance minister Katsunobu Kato has made headlines by suggesting that Japan's significant US government bond portfolios worth about $1.1 trillion could be used as a negotiating card in trade talks with the United States. This statement, …

Japan says massive Treasury stockpile among tools for U.S. trade talks

Japan could use its $1 trillion-plus holdings of U.S. Treasuries as a card in trade talks with Washington, its finance minister said on Friday, raising explicitly for the first time its leverage as a massive creditor to the United States. While Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato did not threaten to sell…

Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, said he will protect his country’s interests in tariff negotiations with the United States, while his finance minister, Katsunobu Kato, acknowledged that the $1.13 trillion in Treasury bonds his country treasures are a “letter on the table” in those negotiations. READ ALSO: Japan responds to US tariff pressure with an emergency economic package In statements to this Friday’s press, Ishiba stated that Japan…

Japan’s finance minister says U.S. Treasury holdings could be ‘a card’ in Trump tariff talks

Japan’s massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys can be “a card on the table” in negotiations over tariffs with the Trump administration, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday. “It does exist as a card, but I think whether we choose to use it or not would be a separate decision,” Kato said during a news show on national broadcaster TV Tokyo. Kato did not elaborate and he did not say Japan would step up sales of its holdings of U.S. government bo…

Japan prepared to use its role as America’s largest creditor as leverage in Trump trade talks

No country holds more provable Treasury debt than Japan with roughly $1.1 trillion, equivalent to a quarter of its entire economy.