据周四获悉，日本三大银行将不参与根据双边关税协议选定的第三批对美投资项目中一项半导体工厂建设项目的银团贷款。
Japan’s three megabanks will not take part in syndicated lending for a semiconductor plant construction project selected for the third batch of Japanese investments in the United States under a bilateral tariff agreement, it was learned Thursday.
这三家银行——三菱UFJ银行、瑞穗银行和三井住友银行——正在敲定不参与的最终安排。日本银行为向美国投资提供贷款融资而筹集美元资金面临日益增加的困难。
The three — MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking — are making final arrangements to forgo participation. Japanese banks face increasing difficulty securing dollar funding for loans to finance investments in the United States.
该项目的资金将由政府支持的日本国际协力银行（JBIC）和外资银行提供。
Funding for the project will be provided by the government-backed Japan Bank for International Cooperation and foreign banks.
根据对美投资的融资框架，JBIC与民间银行按一比二的比例提供贷款，民间部门部分由日本贸易保险承保。
Under the financing framework for the Japanese investments in the United States, JBIC and private-sector banks provide loans at a ratio of one to two, with the private-sector portion insured by Nippon Export and Investment Insurance.
JBIC和三大银行曾为首批对美投资的三个项目提供银团贷款，其中包括一项建设燃气发电厂的项目。
JBIC and the three megabank lenders extended syndicated loans for three projects in the first batch of Japanese investments in the United States, including one to build a gas-fired power plant.
随着对美投资总额预计将达到5500亿美元，日本银行将难以自行筹集如此巨额的美元资金。此外还有担忧认为，日本银行大规模购买美元可能会进一步削弱日元。
With the total value of Japanese investments in the United States expected to reach $550 billion, Japanese banks would struggle to raise such a large amount of dollars on their own. There are also concerns that large-scale dollar purchases by Japanese banks could further weaken the yen.
JBIC和美国主要银行花旗集团、摩根大通计划为第二批对美投资中的一项燃气发电厂建设项目提供融资。日本大型银行机构已请求日本政府帮助它们筹集美元资金。
JBIC and major U.S. lenders Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase are slated to finance the construction of a gas-fired power plant in the second batch of Japanese investments. Japan’s megabank institutions have asked the Japanese government to help them secure dollar funding.
根据第三批计划，日本将在一项为美国芯片代工厂GlobalFoundries建设新工厂的项目中投资高达210亿美元。
Under the third batch, Japan is set to invest up to $21 billion in a project to build new plants for U.S. chip foundry GlobalFoundries.