Proclamation 9888 of May 17, 2019 Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States, as amended found that foreign produced automobiles & parts have a competitive advantage over US-owned producers, with US producers having 67% share in 1985 to 22% share in 2017. In addition, the EU and Japan imposed significant barriers to importing US-produced automobiles & parts with the US share of the global market falling from 36% in 1995 to 12% in 2017. But, in my opinion this Proclamation did not address the actual reason why so many US purchasers of automobiles were choosing foreign imports. I think US consumers were looking for reliability and value. And they were not finding that with US produced automobiles. All this did was make the more reliable vehicles more expensive to obtain.
Proclamation 9705 of March 8, 2018 Adjusting Imports of Steel Into the United States, as amended modifies Chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the US as of March 23, 2018 setting rates of duty at 25% for various steel products from counties other than Canada and Mexico.
Proclamation 9704 of March 8, 2018 Adjusting Imports of Aluminum Into the United States, as amended modifies Chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the US as of March 23, 2018 setting additional rates of duty at 10% for various aluminum products other than Canada and Mexico.
This current agreement
will apply a baseline 15 percent tariff on nearly all Japanese imports entering the United States, alongside separate sector-specific treatment for automobiles and automobile parts; aerospace products; generic pharmaceuticals; and natural resources that are not naturally available or produced in the United States.
Japan, meanwhile, will provide American manufacturing, aerospace, agriculture, food, energy, automobile, and industrial goods producers with breakthrough openings in market access across key sectors. Specifically, the Government of Japan is working toward an expedited implementation of a 75% increase of United States rice procurements within the Minimum Access rice scheme and purchases of United States agricultural goods, including corn, soybeans, fertilizer, bioethanol (including for sustainable aviation fuel), as well as other United States products, in amounts totaling $8 billion per year. The Government of Japan is also working to accept for sale in Japan United States-manufactured and United States-safety-certified passenger vehicles without additional testing. Separately, Japan will purchase United States-made commercial aircraft, as well as United States defense equipment.
Japan will invest $550 billion directed by the United States to rebuild and expand core American industries.
Section 2 states that the tariff rate will be 15%. Current rates less than 15% will be raised and no additional duty will apply per EO 14326 of July 31, 2025 Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates discussed in my August 1, 2025 ANP article. These duties will apply in lieu of duties previously imposed by EO 14257 (addressed above). The tariffs shall be retroactive to August 7, 2025.
Section 3 removes tariffs imposed by EO 14257, Proclamations 9704, 9705, and 10962 (as identified above).
Section 5 covers products not subject to reciprocal tariffs such as natural resources unavailable or insufficient to meet domestic demand such as generic pharmaceuticals, their ingredients, or their chemical precursors. All tariffs on these products shall be reduced to zero.
Section 6 orders the Secretary of Commerce to monitor Japan's implementation of this agreement. Should Japan fail to follow the agreement, the President reserves the rights to re-implement higher tariffs.
I predict AI will represent the single largest growth category in our nation during the Trump Administration—and I won’t be surprised if AI becomes known as the greatest engine of progress in the history of the United States of America. But, as leaders and parents we must manage AI’s growth responsibly. During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children—empowering, but with watchful guidance. We are living in a moment of wonder, and it is our responsibility to prepare America’s children.
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I was not grand. I was faithful. And I am content to have helped a nation stand.
Today's Patriot is Samuel Huntington who was born July 16, 1731 in Windham, Connecticut Colony (now Scotland), Connecticut. He was 4th born of 10 children.
He was briefly educated in the common school. At 16, he apprenticed with a cooper while assisting his father on the family farm. Reverend Ebenezer Devotion allowed Samuel access to his library in order to continue his self-education (and perhaps to be close to the Reverend's daughter, Martha). Beyond the Reverend's book collection, Samuel borrowed books from local lawyers. He was admitted to the bar in 1754, moving to Norwich, Connecticut to open his practice.
Samuel married Martha Devotion in 1761. They had no children; however, the couple adopted their nephew and niece when Martha's sister, Hannah, (who was married to Samuel's brother Joseph), died. They called Joseph & Hannah's son "Samuel Jr."
From 1764 to 1774, Samuel served in the Connecticut Assembly Lower House as the representative from Norwich. In 1768 he was appointed king's attorney for Connecticut. In 1773 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Errors. From 1775 to 1784, he served in the Connecticut Assembly Upper House (Governor's Council).
In January 1776 he was a Connecticut delegate to the Second Continental Congress, joining Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott where he voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence. On September 28, 1779, he was elected as President of the United States in Congress Assembled (which some people interpret as his being the first president of the US). The Articles of Confederation were ratified during his term as President of the Continental Congress. Samuel contacted smallpox upon his arrival in Philadelphia in January 1776 and was unable to attend to Congress until February 1776.
From 1784 to 1786 he was chief justice of the Supreme Court. In 1785, he was elected as lieutenant governor of Connecticut. From 1786 to 1796, he was governor of Connecticut, vacating his position as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Samuel died in office from "dropsy of the chest" (fluid retention in the chest aka hydrothorax) on January 5, 1796 at age 65. He is interred in the Old Norwich Town Cemetery behind his mansion house with his wife. In 2003, the tomb was restored and the couple were reinterred in a formal ceremony on November 23, 2003. Samuel's adopted son (previously his nephew) followed in Samuel's footsteps, pursuing law and becoming the 3rd Governor of Ohio in 1810.
Those are some of the exact words used by Google’s censors, aka 'Orwellian content police,' in describing many of our controversial stories. Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
