U.S.-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce

Following the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity with Matthew Perry, which allowed for a U.S. Consul in Shimoda, negotiations between Townsend Harris and the Tokugawa Shogunate resulted in this treaty 1858. Among the agreements were the following provisions.

-exchange of diplomatic agents

-opening of various ports to U.S. sailors

-ability of U.S. citizens to live and trade in those ports

-fixed low import/export duties

-extraterritoriality for U.S. citizens

This is one of the treaties which came to be known as the "Unequal Treaties"