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7/12/2022

READOUT: Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen’s Meeting with Japanese Business Leaders on Bolstering Supply Ch…

READOUT: Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen’s Meeting
with Japanese Business Leaders on Bolstering Supply Chain
Resiliency and Expanding Friend-Shoring
July 12, 2022

TOKYO — Today, Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen and U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Rahm Emanuel participated in a roundtable discussion at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo with
leaders of Japanese businesses to discuss how bolstering supply chain resiliency and
expanding friend-shoring with trusted economic partners can help ease inflationary pressures
over time and address the bottlenecks that are raising prices for consumers. The participants
discussed the state of the American and Japanese economies, as well as e orts to mitigate
supply chain challenges rising from the COVID-19 pandemic and Putinʼs unprovoked and
unjustified war in Ukraine, particularly its e ects on global energy and food prices. Secretary
Yellen provided an update on the United Statesʼ rapid economic recovery thanks to President
Bidenʼs American Rescue Plan and strategies to combat global inflation, including a price cap
on the cost of Russian oil exports to lower prices for consumers in the United States, Japan,
and around the world while limiting revenue for Putinʼs war machine.
Participants included U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and senior executives from
Marubeni, Mitsui, Panasonic, Sony, Sumitomo, and Zen-Noh.
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