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More than 50 countries contacted Donald Trump to try to negotiate after announcing the large rates last week, said the director of the United States National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett.
But Indonesia and Taiwan said they would not impose possession rates while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Washington DC to meet Trump for commercial talks
This comes after a 10% “basal” rate on most US imports began on Saturday.
The United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned “The world as we knew he went” and said that the government was ready to intervene to protect the British economy
Experts warned that rates could increase prices for consumers, but Trump urged the United States to “hang” after the turbulence of the market
The officials of the White House declared on Sunday that dozens of countries had contacted Trump to look for negotiations on the rates that announced last week.
Many of them have appeared on the political talk shows of the weekend of the US networks. Let’s take a look at the latest comments from Trump’s officials on Sunday on when these rates may have effect:
When asked if the rates were permanent or a negotiation tactic, the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the NBC “It will be a decision for President Trump, but I can tell you that … he created the maximum lever for himself”
The Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told the American partner of the BBC, CBS News, “the rates are coming, obviously” when he was asked if there was the opportunity to negotiate.
At the beginning of the interview, when he insisted on the fact that Trump was taking into consideration the possibility of postponing the implementation of the rates to negotiate, Lutnick said: “There is no postponement. Surely they will remain in place for days and weeks”
In response to a question about the Vietnam request for a delay of 46 days at the rates, Peter Navarro-a best councilor of President Trump-declared to Fox News “This is not a negotiation”, but he added: “We are always willing to listen”.
When asked if there is room for the negotiations on the CNN, the secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins did not answer the question directly, instead saying: “We are two working days in this new American order, so I think we have a lot to determine, but the president is resolved in his attention” [BBC]
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