While South Korean imports to the U.S. face 25% tariffs, the same as Trump promised in April, the rate on Japan has been raised by 1 percentage point to 25%.

Many economists already believe it’s a matter of time before Americans start to see sticker shock from the tariffs President Donald Trump has enacted. That timeline could speed up even more if Trump follows through with his latest package of tariff threats slated to take effect in three weeks.

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.

The top military chiefs of the US, South Korea, and Japan met in Seoul Friday, as President Donald Trump ups the pressure over defense spending and trade.

In letters so far to 14 countries, including smaller exporters to the United States such as Serbia, Thailand and Tunisia, Trump hinted at opportunities for additional negotiations, even while warning that reprisals would draw a like-for-like response.

President Donald Trump issued separate letters to the president of South Korea and Japan's prime minister on Monday, saying the U.S. will start charging a 25% tariff on Aug. 1. He also sent letters to 12 other countries.

Japan and South Korea, the United States’ closest security allies in Asia and key partners in its effort to counter China, were sent scrambling Tuesday after the U.S. president renewed his threat to impose steep tariffs on their goods,

The U.S. will put in place a 25% tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea starting on Aug. 1, according to letters posted by President Donald Trump on his social media platform on Monday. Trump wrote to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung to inform them of the news, citing unfair trade balances.

South Korea said it will review regulations flagged by the US while pressing for an easing of sectoral tariffs after President Donald Trump sent a letter with a new August deadline for imposing 25% across-the-board levies.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he's imposing a 25% tariffs on goods from Japan and South Korea beginning on August 1 as the Republican continues his pressure campaign on longtime U.S ...

South Korea will follow terms previously agreed with the United States on defence cost sharing, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, following a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for Seoul to pay more for the U.