WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has been offered with presents from a minimum of 15 nations for bespoke commerce offers following President Trump’s announcement final week of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed reporters Tuesday.
“We’ve had more than 15 deals, pieces of paper, put on the table — proposals that are actively being considered,” Leavitt mentioned throughout her common briefing, with out specifying which nations had made the presents
The press secretary additionally clarified that no agreements had been finalized but, however predicted offers ought to be occurring “soon.”
“As we’ve said consistently, more than 75 countries have reached out,” Leavitt defined. “So there’s a lot of work to do. We very much understand that, but we also believe that we can announce some deals very soon.”
A White Home official predicted to The Publish final week that India, Japan and Vietnam had been more likely to be among the many first nations to return to a one-for-one commerce understanding with the US.
In the meantime, the Wall Avenue Journal reported Monday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent can also be prioritizing fast agreements with Australia, South Korea and the UK — indicating a desire for US allies who expressed a need to barter as quickly a attainable.
Trump, 78, introduced April 9 he was holding off on imposing steep duties on dozens of countries all over the world till early July to permit his financial group additional time to work out agreements, promising on the time “a deal is going to be made with every one of them.”
Key gamers within the talks embrace Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, commerce adviser Peter Navarro, Nationwide Financial Council Director Kevin Hassett and US Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer — with Trump himself getting the ultimate say.
“We’ve got everybody in the trade team, and even deputies of people in the trade team, talking to just about everybody on Earth, and I think that we’ve got more than 10 deals where there’s very good, amazing offers made to the US that Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Howard Lutnick and the rest of our trade team of the president are stewing over whether those deals are good enough,” Hassett informed Fox Information on Monday.
The NEC boss added that it was unclear whether or not the offers can be introduced one after the other or all of sudden.
China is the one nation nonetheless in a full-fledged commerce warfare with the US, as Beijing and Washington have ramped up tariffs to 125% on one another’s imports.
Any attainable commerce cope with the Asian energy is as much as Beijing, Trump mentioned in a press release shared by Leavitt.
“The ball is in China’s court,” the president mentioned. “China must make a cope with us. We don’t need to make a cope with them.
“There’s no difference between China and any other country, except they are much larger and China wants what we have — what every country wants that we have — the American consumer, or to put another way, they need our money.”
Further reporting by Steve Nelson
