From Washington Examiner: President Donald Trump revealed on Monday evening that he could be amenable to offering foreign countries a third deadline extension protecting them from steep “Liberation Day” tariffs first announced in April.
The Trump administration initially announced the global tariffs on April 2 before pausing the bulk of the levies a week later and granting countries a 90-day reprieve as the White House engaged with a slew of world leaders clamoring to engage in trade negotiations. On Monday, Trump signed an executive order pushing the second July 9 cutoff to an Aug. 1 deadline despite officials previously suggesting an additional reprieve would likely not happen.
When pressed on Monday about whether the latest August deadline might be flexible for negotiation from global partners, Trump said the date was “firm but not 100% firm.”
“If they call up and they say we’d like to do something a different way, I would be open to that. But essentially, that’s the way it is right now,” Trump said..
“I would say final, but if they call with a different offer, and if I like it, we’ll do it,” Trump said,
The United States sent letters telling Japan, South Korea, and other allies that Liberation Day tariffs were looming.
President Trump unveiled the first in a wave of promised letters that threaten to impose higher tariff rates on key trading partners, but suggested that he was still open to additional negotiations https://t.co/SDz52RqbNF pic.twitter.com/zBhtSilVzM
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