Japan vs United States: Tariff rate for primary and manufactured products

Japan

1.6%

in 2022

United States

1.5%

in 2022

Japan rank

135th

United States rank

138th

Tariff rate for primary and manufactured products over time

Japan currently reports 1.6% against 1.5% in United States, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times United States's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 33 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 135th and United States ranks 138th of 184 countries.

Indicator: Tariff rate for primary and manufactured products
Unit: %
Source: World Bank (WITS), UNCTAD (TRAINS), and World Trade Organization (WTO) (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 184 places, 3,763 data points, 1988–2022
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Weighted mean applied tariff is the average of effectively applied rates weighted by the product import shares corresponding to each partner country.