The United States will place a lower-than-promised 20% tariff on many Vietnamese exports, Donald Trump said on Wednesday, cooling tensions with its tenth-biggest trading partner days before the U.S. president could raise levies on most imports.

Trump said Japan’s rate could end up at “30%, 35%,” which would be substantially higher than the 24% initially set when widespread tariffs were announced on April 2.

China knocked the newly announced U.S. trade deal with Vietnam, saying Beijing “firmly opposes” any deal that disadvantages its economy and pledged to take “countermeasures” to protect its own