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Trump shared screenshots of letters detailing new tariff rates for over a dozen countries, allowing room for further negotiations before the renewed deadline of Aug. 1.
By Tamiyuki Kihara, Makiko Yamazaki and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -When Japanese Premier Shigeru Ishiba first met Donald Trump in February, his plan to placate the protectionist president's long-held frustration with Tokyo on trade was a promise to invest $1 trillion in the United States.
President Donald Trump is scheduled on Monday to welcome Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to the White House for a state dinner.The administration is also this week expected to continue tariff negotiations with international trading partners,
President Donald Trump's latest executive order delaying official tariff increases on dozens of countries until Aug. 1 has relieved some pressure on world markets, but he also ordered a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea,
The new tariff rates threatened in the letters Trump shared Wednesday are similar to those he announced on what the White House dubbed “Liberation Day” in early April.