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\n Hours before President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs were set to take effect in April, he said, \u201cThese countries are calling us up, kissing my a**. They are dying to make a deal. \u2018Please, please, sir, make a deal. I\u2019ll do anything, I\u2019ll do anything, sir.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Then after he initially paused those tariffs in April, his top trade advisor, Peter Navarro, promised the president was going to achieve \u201c90 (trade) deals in 90 days.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n It\u2019s been 111 days, however, and only two deals have been finalized, one of which \u2013 with China \u2013 expires in two weeks. Trump has announced a handful of trade agreements over the past month with trading partners, but until they\u2019re finalized, they\u2019re essentially rough drafts. And in the case of one of those rough drafts, it\u2019s not even entirely clear what the draft says. Trump announced a \u201cdeal\u201d with Vietnam in a Truth Social post earlier this month, but the Vietnamese government hasn\u2019t publicly confirmed any details.\n <\/p>\n
\n So what happened to all those promised deals?\n <\/p>\n
\n As Trump\u2019s original 90-day \u201creciprocal\u201d tariff deadline of July 8 approached, Trump and members of his administration began to change their tone, pointing fingers at other trading partners for not negotiating in \u201cgood faith.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think what President Trump is concerned about is the quality of the deals, not the quantity,\u201d Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview earlier this month.\n <\/p>\n
\n Then, after Trump extended the July 8 deadline to August 1, he began sending out a flurry of letters to heads of state informing them of the tariff rates their respective countries\u2019 goods would face absent a trade deal.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cA letter means a deal,\u201d the president said at a Cabinet meeting on July 8.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours before President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs were set to take effect in April, he said, \u201cThese countries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-37774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}