Trump ‘actively’ considering 15 tariff deals with different nations after 90-day reciprocal pause, White House says

WASHINGTON — The Trump management has been presented pinch offers from astatine slightest 15 nations for bespoke waste and acquisition deals pursuing President Trump’s announcement past week of a 90-day region connected reciprocal tariffs, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.

“We’ve had much than 15 deals, pieces of paper, put connected nan array — proposals that are actively being considered,” Leavitt said during her regular briefing, without specifying which nations had made nan offers

The property caput besides clarified that nary agreements had been finalized yet, but predicted deals should beryllium happening “soon.”

“As we’ve said consistently, much than 75 countries person reached out,” Leavitt explained. “So there’s a batch of activity to do. We very overmuch understand that, but we besides judge that we tin denote immoderate deals very soon.”

A White House charismatic predicted to The Post past week that India, Japan and Vietnam were apt to beryllium among nan first nations to travel to a one-for-one waste and acquisition knowing pinch nan US.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is besides prioritizing speedy agreements pinch Australia, South Korea and nan United Kingdom — indicating a penchant for US friends who expressed a desire to discuss arsenic soon a possible.

Trump, 78, announced April 9 he was holding disconnected connected imposing steep duties connected dozens of nations astir nan world until early July to let his economical squad other clip to activity retired agreements, promising astatine nan clip “a woody is going to beryllium made pinch each 1 of them.”

Key players successful nan talks see Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, waste and acquisition advisor Peter Navarro, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer — pinch Trump himself getting nan last say.

“We’ve sewage everybody successful nan waste and acquisition team, and moreover deputies of group successful nan waste and acquisition team, talking to conscionable astir everybody connected Earth, and I deliberation that we’ve sewage much than 10 deals wherever there’s very good, astonishing offers made to nan US that Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Howard Lutnick and nan remainder of our waste and acquisition squad of nan president are stewing complete whether those deals are bully enough,” Hassett told Fox News connected Monday.

The NEC leader added that it was unclear whether nan deals would beryllium announced 1 astatine a clip aliases each astatine once.

China is nan only state still successful a full-fledged waste and acquisition warfare pinch nan US, arsenic Beijing and Washington person ramped up tariffs to 125% connected each other’s imports.

Any imaginable waste and acquisition woody pinch nan Asian powerfulness is up to Beijing, Trump said successful a connection shared by Leavitt.

“The shot is successful China’s court,” nan president said. “China needs to make a woody pinch us. We don’t person to make a woody pinch them.

“There’s nary quality betwixt China and immoderate different country, isolated from they are overmuch larger and China wants what we person — what each state wants that we person — nan American consumer, aliases to put different way, they request our money.”

Additional reporting by Steve Nelson