In an appearance that had generated great expectations for being the last one before August 1 – -, the US president Donald Trump has allocated his usual digression salad with brief and episodic references to numerous themes: of Canada,, to Jerome Powell, president of the Federal Reserve, who said it had been “a great mistake to name him” (although he did it in his first mandate. The Republican also referred to possible sanctions on Russia for not wanting to end the Ukraine War.
Trump, who today announced that his special envoy for the Middle East, has strongly criticized the “disgusting” behavior of Kremlin in his offensive against Ukraine and stated that he plans to impose sanctions if an agreement is not reached that puts an end to war.
The Republican President took advantage of the round of questions of the journalists who attended the signing of an executive order on sport, to say that he is not sure that the sanctions can deter Russia. “He has given the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, until August 8 to reach an agreement or will respond with economic pressure” by Washington, he said.
When everyone was waiting for weight ads about tariffs, Trump has mentioned them from passing when referring to commercial conversations with Canada, together with Mexico the main commercial partner of the United States. Trump has assured that he does not like in the UN General Assembly, in September, but he added that it is not a decisive factor in the conversations, in which a 35% tariff for all imports not covered Between the United States, Mexico and Canada “is still on the table,” said Thursday the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, to the Fox chain.
After dispatching stating that it is “a terrible situation,” Trump lashed out again against the president of the Fed, which yesterday resolved, as planned, that since December if he places in the range of 4.25% to 4.5%, despite the insistence of the Republican administration in an immediate type cut. “He is a horrible president of the Fed. It was a mistake to name him,” said the Republican ,.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has advanced this Thursday that “at some point in this afternoon or later, tonight” Trump will sign an order to impose more tariffs from midnight on Friday, and that countries that have not received a previous letter on the matter or have negotiated a commercial framework – – will be notified in this regard, either in the form of a letter or of the executive order of Trump.
The presence of the majority of members of his government in the Oval Office at the firm ceremony this Thursday had raised the expectation of large ads, but the event ended without concrete information. The tariff truce announced by Trump comes to an end this midnight with last minute agreements (“we have signed a couple of them,” he pointed out, without giving details), extensions to continue negotiating and the theoretical confirmation that those countries with whom a pact has not been reached will receive before midnight American, as Leavitt said, the notification of the tax that corresponds to them, from A 10% universal tariff.
Just a dozen countries or economies have reached an agreement with Washington since the Republican launched its commercial war in April. Among them are the United Kingdom, preferential partner; The European Union, or China, although in the latter case the negotiations will continue until August 12, when the bilateral pause expires. At the same time, Washington has confirmed tariffs to Brazil (50%) and India, the first, and in the case of New Delhi.
Despite not having explained what his future movements will be, Trump has congratulated this Thursday for a commercial policy that, as he has written in his social network Truth, is making the US “big and rich again.” “A year ago the United States was a dead country, now it is the most attractive in the world,” he said, with his usual emphatic capital letters. With concrete or vagueness ads, on August 1 it is still, for Trump, “a great day” for the US.
