Trump’s new threat: customs within two weeks

« We will send letters in a week and a half, two weeks, to countries, and tell us what it will be for agreements, » Donald Trump told journalists at the John F Kennedy Center in Washington on Wednesday local time according to Bloomberg.

– At a certain time we will only send out letters. And I think you understand that, when I say this is the agreement, you can either accept it or reject it, he added.

The statement is reminiscent of what Trump said on May 16, when he promised completed customs duties on the US trading partner « within two to three weeks » – a message that was never followed up by any concrete figures.

On the question of whether he could think To extend the negotiating deadline with customs passage until July 9, Trump replied that he could think of this to get settlements in place with individual countries.

« But I don’t think it will be necessary, » he added according to the News Agency.

The US Minister of Commerce Howard Lutnick said earlier on Wednesday that the EU – whose customs agreement Sweden and Swedish companies are directly affected by – will probably be one of the last agreements that the United States will be completed.

Earlier this week did Trade delegations from the US and China about a continued ceasefire in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. A so-called framework agreement that confirms what the countries settled in Geneva in May, according to Trump, will, among other things, mean that on average, US goods on Chinese goods will fall at 55 percent, while China’s customs on USA products end up at about 10 percent.

The framework agreement exact content is not presented. It set, however Two days of negotiations In London between the US and China and has, among other things, opened up new Chinese license agreements for exports of rare earth metals and magnets to the United States and for universities in the United States to receive Chinese students.