Donald Trump will not extend the break on global customs duties

Donald Trump does not plan to extend the 90-day break on customs duties imposed on most countries beyond July 9, when the negotiation period he set will expire.

He said his administration will inform the countries concerned that commercial sanctions will come into force unless they conclude agreements with the United States.

Letters will start to be sent fairly quickly Before the deadline, he said.

We will look at how each country treats us, if it is good or if it is less good. For some countries, we will not care, we will simply send a large number of lettersTrump said in a long interview recorded on Friday and broadcast on Sunday on the show Sunday Morning Futures chain Fox News.

These letters, he added, will say this: Congratulations, we allow you to shop in the United States, but you will pay customs duties of 25 %, 35 %, 50 %or 10 %.

At a press conference held on Friday at the White House, Trump had minimized the importance of this deadline by stressing the difficulty of concluding separate agreements with each country. It was set as a goal of signing 90 commercial agreements in 90 days.

Negotiations continue, but as There are 200 countries, we cannot speak to all countrieshe said.

In this interview, Trump also mentioned a potential agreement with Tiktok, relations with China, strikes against Iran and his policy of repression of immigration.

A potential buyer for Tiktok

A group of wealthy investors will submit an offer to buy Tiktok, said Trump, referring to an agreement that could safeguard the future of the popular social media platform, which is owned by the Chinese company Bytedance.

We have a buyer for Tiktok. I will probably need the approval of China and President XI (Jinping) probably willhe said.

Mr. Trump did not give details of investors, only calling them to very rich group of people.

I will tell you what it is in about two weekshe replied when he was asked for details.

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This is a delay that Mr. Trump often quotes, as he recently did in connection with a decision on the direct involvement of the American army in the war between Israel and Iran. The United States struck Iranian nuclear sites a few days later.

At the beginning of the month, Trump signed a decree to allow Tiktok to continue operating in the United States for 90 additional days, in order to give his administration more time to negotiate an agreement to bring the social media platform under American property.

This is the third time that Mr. Trump has extended the deadline. The first time, he had signed a decree on January 20, the first day of his entry into office, after the brief closure of the platform following a national ban approved by the Congress and confirmed by the Supreme Court.

The Iranian file

In addition, the American strikes on Iran have annihilate The country’s nuclear installations insisted Mr. Trump. He said that anyone who has disclosed a preliminary information assessment suggesting that the Tehran nuclear program had only been delayed for a few months should be prosecuted.

He said Iran was a few weeks old to have a nuclear weapon before he orders the strikes.

Iran has been wiped out as no one had ever seen it before. It is the end of his nuclear ambitions, at least for a certain timeassured the American president.

The Iranian Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Sunday on social network X that Trump had exaggerated to hide the truth.

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For his part, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, told the show Face the Nation of the CBS channel that the nuclear program of his country was peaceful and that Uranium enrichment is an inalienable right Under the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

I think the enrichment will never stophe added.

It is clear that there have been serious damage, but these are not total damagesaid the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, on CBS.

Mr. Grossi also said that the United Nations nuclear surveillance body had undergone pressures to let Iran have a nuclear weapon or was close, but We just didn’t do it because it was not what we saw.

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In another part of the interview, Trump praised a recent trade agreement with Beijing on rare earth exports from China.

He said that establishing a more equitable relationship requires the application of important customs duties.

It is a very good thing to get along well with China. China will pay a lot of customs duties, but we have a big (commercial) deficit, it understands ithe said.

Trump said he would be ready to remove sanctions on Iranian oil deliveries to China if Iran can show that he can be peaceful and that he will not do more harm.

But the president also said that the United States was not afraid of taking retaliatory measures against Beijing.