Toyota Motor Corporation: The U.S. And Japan Ink Trade Deal, The Stock Soars

2025-07-23 12:48:27 ET

The Japan trade deal is done

Fresh off the press, the first big U.S. trading partner trade deal is done. This sent many Japanese stocks up after hours after the news broke yesterday. This includes the large cap leader of Japanese stocks, Toyota Motor Corporation ( TM , TOYOF ). Here are the details (emphasis added):

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “massive” trade deal with Japan, setting a 15% reciprocal tariff on the country’s exports to the U.S. and featuring a reported cut in auto duties.

Calling it “perhaps the largest Deal ever made,” Trump said Japan will invest $550 billion in the U.S., with America set to “receive 90% of the profits.”

“We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made. Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. [….] Japan will pay Reciprocal Tariffs to the United States of 15%,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

The deal will also open Japan’s markets to U.S. cars, trucks, rice, and other products, which Trump said will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said that U.S. auto tariffs on Japanese vehicles will be reduced from 25% to 15% , according to Reuters.

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