Could Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel ‘investment’ deal ease trade talks with Japan?

New statements from President Trump and other U.S. officials about a nearly completed agreement on the controversial acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel could signal that trade talks between the U.S. and Japanese governments are easing as they look to announce a deal before a mid-June G7 summit, a former U.S. trade negotiator says. “I think it’s a positive. It’s not central to the negotiations.... Japan and the United States were trying to keep it on a separate track...