As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya made gains on a “Japanese first” platform.

In the past week, the Trump folks struck deals with Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines — and may be on the verge of a deal with Europe.

The Japanese government, not companies, is poised to back U.S. infrastructure projects of the president’s choosing.

He’s a wheeler-dealer, our president, needless to say, and he’s kind of cutting these deals — but he has scared these people, and he’s leveraged American bargaining

Trump said the U.S. may send out tariff rebate checks, though lowering the national debt would take precedence.

US stocks are floating near all-time highs as Wall Street maintains cautious optimism that Washington might ink more trade deals, avoiding a worst-case scenario of extraordinarily high tariffs and enabling the resilient economy to continue chugging along.

With one week left before the U.S. imposes a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent another public message to U.S.