By John Revill<\/p>\n
ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter and Business Minister Guy Parmelin will fly to Washington on Tuesday, the government said, to try to avoid the 39% tariffs<\/a> announced by President Donald Trump<\/a> on exports to the United States.<\/p>\n The pair will “facilitate meetings with the US authorities at short notice and hold talks with a view to improving the tariff situation for Switzerland,” the government said.<\/p>\n It not specify which parts of the U.S. government they would meet in Washington or whether a meeting was scheduled with Trump.<\/p>\n The Swiss government said on Monday it was ready to make a “more attractive offer” to United States as it sought to avoid a 39% tariff, due to take effect on August 7, which would damage Switzerland’s economy.<\/p>\n The Federal Council, the governing cabinet, held an emergency meeting and said it was ready to pursue negotiations beyond the August 7 deadline.<\/p>\n The government gave no details of what extra incentives could be offered to secure a better deal, but it did say it was not considering any countermeasures against the U.S.<\/p>\n The aim of Keller-Sutter and Parmelin’s trip was to present “a more attractive offer to the United States in a bid to lower the level of reciprocal tariffs for Swiss exports, taking U.S. concerns into account,” the government said.<\/p>\n (Writing by John Revill and Madeline Chambers, Editing by Miranda Murray and Giles Elgood)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter and Business Minister Guy Parmelin will fly to Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,42261,44995,3,942,44996,44994,44997,44998,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-60074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-guy-parmelin","tag-karin-keller-sutter","tag-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-swiss-exports","tag-swiss-government","tag-swiss-president","tag-the-government","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}