President Donald Trump on Monday began sending letters to dozens of countries around the world, informing them of what tariff rate imports from their countries to the U.S. will face.
After promising 90 trade deals in 90 days, not a single trade deal ended up being signed. However, Trump and the Secretaries of Commerce and Treasury, as well as the U.S. Trade Representative, did ink three general frameworks that could potentially be used as the basis of fully-fledged trade deals in the future. Those were signed with the United Kingdom, China and Vietnam.
As the president appeared to grow irritated with repeated questions about the lack of trade deals, Trump began saying months ago that the United States would start “sending letters out” telling countries “what the deal is,” rather than negotiating for deals.
“We have, at the same time, 150 countries that want to make a deal. But you’re not able to see that many countries,” Trump said in early May. “So at a certain point, over the next two to three weeks, I think Scott and Howard will be sending letters out.”
Trump said again in mid-June that the United States would send letters informing other countries about their tariff rates “in about a week and a half, two weeks.”
This week, the president began issuing those letters. So far 22 have been sent, according to Trump’s posts on his Truth social media site.
Here are the countries that have received them so far:
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