Deals made by Trump since pausing his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs remain sparse

NEW YORK Just over three months ago President Donald Trump unveiled his largest part sweeping volley of tariffs yet holding up large charts from the White House Rose Garden to outline new import taxes that the U S would soon slap on goods from nearly every country in the world Related Articles Trump to put tariffs on allies Japan and South Korea Trump administration s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists faces federal trial Trump and Netanyahu may take a domination lap on Iran but the Gaza war looms over their meeting Pressure from Trump for arrangement deals before Wednesday deadline but hints of more time for talks Musk says he s forming a new political party after split with Trump over tax cuts law But in line with much of Trump s on-again off-again deal plan playbook the bulk of those Liberation Day levies in April were postponed just hours after they took effect in a -day suspension that arrived in an apparent effort to quell global sphere panic and facilitate country-by-country negotiations At that time the administration set a lofty goal of reaching pact deals in days Now with the July deadline looming the U S has only publicized pacts with the United Kingdom and Vietnam as well as a framework agreement with China in a separate business dispute News of these deals often trickled through social media posts from the president and even when countries on both sides of a negotiation table made more official announcements several key details including timing were sparse The Trump administration has since hinted that particular trading partners might get more time for talks Over the July th holiday weekend Trump stated that the U S would start sending letters to certain countries warning that higher tariffs could kick in Aug Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to share letters he sent to the leaders of Japan and South Korea declaring that both countries would see tariffs on goods entering the U S starting Aug Even with negotiations ongoing greater part countries have still faced a minimum levy on goods entering the U S over the past three months on top of punishing new taxes targeting foreign steel and aluminum as well as auto imports The -day pause pushed back additional steeper rates which Trump calls reciprocal tariffs for dozens of nations Here s what we know about the contract deals revealed since April Vietnam On July Trump reported a arrangement deal with Vietnam that he explained would allow U S goods to enter the country duty-free Vietnamese exports to the United States by contrast would face a levy That s less than half the reciprocal rate Trump proposed for Vietnamese goods back in April But in addition to the new tariff rate Trump explained the U S would impose a tax on transshipping targeting goods from another country that stop in Vietnam on their way to the United States Washington complains that Chinese goods have been dodging higher U S tariffs by transiting through Vietnam It wasn t promptly clear when these new rates would go into effect or whether they would come on top of any other previously-imposed levies Like preponderance other countries Vietnam has faced Trump s baseline tariff for the last three months United Kingdom On May Trump agreed to cut tariffs on British autos steel and aluminum among other bargain pledges while the U K promised to reduce levies on U S products like olive oil wine and sports equipment The deal was released in grandiose terms by both countries but various key details remained unknown for weeks When the deal was released for example the British ruling body notably reported that the U S agreed to exempt the U K from its then-universal duties on foreign steel and aluminum which would have effectively allowed both metals from the country to come into the U S duty-free But the timing for when those cuts would indeed take effect stayed up in the air for almost a month It wasn t until early June when Trump hiked his steel and aluminum tariffs to a punishing worldwide that the U S acknowledged it was time to implement the agreement And even then U S tariffs on British steel and aluminum did not go to zero The U K was the only country spared from Trump s new levies but still faces import taxes on the metals and Trump mentioned that rate could also go up on or after Wednesday The U K did not receive a higher reciprocal rate on April but continues to face the baseline tax China At its peak Trump s new tariffs on Chinese goods totaled and China s countertariffs on American products reached But on May the countries agreed to their own -day truce to roll back those levies to and respectively And last month details began trickling in about a tentative commerce agreement On June following talks in London Trump broadcasted a framework for a deal And late last month the U S and China both acknowledged that specific sort of agreement had been reached U S Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained that China had agreed to make it easier for American firms to acquire Chinese magnets and rare earth minerals critical for manufacturing and microchip production Meanwhile without explicitly mentioning U S access to rare earths the Chinese Commerce Ministry declared that it would review and approve eligible export applications for controlled items and that the U S would lift a series of restrictive measures it had imposed on China More specifics about those measures and when they would truly go into effect were not straightaway clear But on Friday the Ministry of Commerce acknowledged that the U S was resuming exports of airplane parts ethane and other items to China And when Trump first broadcasted the framework on June the U S had commented it agreed to stop seeking to revoke the visas of Chinese students on U S college campuses AP Reporters Aniruddha Ghosal in Hanoi Paul Wiseman and Fu Ting in Washington D C and Huizhong Wu in Bangkok contributed to this description