TOKYO, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he plans to speak to U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone as early as next week to discuss Trump's tariff hike.

"I will talk logically about how much Japan will benefit (the United States)," Ishiba said on a TV program on Saturday, adding that Japan will consider new investments in the United States.

Ishiba also indicated that Japan has no plans to impose retaliatory tariffs against the United States, saying, "We will not go tit-for-tat."

Trump announced a new set of levies on Wednesday, imposing a 10-percent baseline tariff on imports from all trading partners and higher rates on certain ones. With Japan being slapped with a harsher-than-expected 24-percent levy, Tokyo has been lobbying for an exemption.

Ishiba plans to ask Trump to reconsider the tariffs by highlighting Japan's contributions as the largest investor in the United States, local media reported, with the prime minister saying Friday that new U.S. tariffs had triggered a "national crisis." Enditem

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