Washington – President Donald Trump promoted the new expansive tariffs on imports that he imposed on global business partners on Thursday night, telling NBC News in a telephone interview that everything was going “very good, very soft.”
He also said that with only a few hours for the end of his deadline of midnight self -imposed for commercial agreements, it was “too late” for other countries to prevent rates from establishing in place next week, which formalized in a new executive order.
But, he added, his door will always be open to convincing offers: “It does not mean that someone does not come in four weeks and says that we can make some kind of treatment.”
In Thursday’s executive order, Trump officially made his agreements with business partners such as the European Union, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the Philippines.
Trump’s order establishes unilaterally rates for countries that did not reach agreements with him. For example, the Switzerland rate will be established higher than the previously threatened, at 39%, while Taiwan will be established lower, 20%.
Trump boasted of the tariff income that the United States is already receiving – $ 26 billion in June, according to the figures of the Treasury Department, and said that there would be much more to come.
“We will collect hundreds of billions of dollars, and very quickly,” he said.
When asked if he is concerned about possible peaks in the prices of imported goods, Trump replied: “The only price that is triggered are the hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Trump said he was open to more discussions with Canada and said he could even speak with Prime Minister Mark Carney later on Thursday night, but said he would not reach a new agreement with the country before the deadline.
Trump also said he was not familiar with the recent interview of the New York Times of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, which suggests that Brazil was prepared to dig and back against the United States Rate Program.
Han of his tenor, Trump replied: “It’s fine. But he doesn’t have to do business with the United States, which is fine with me.”
Trump also discussed the next trip of the special envoy Steve Witkoff and the United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who will travel to Gaza Strip on Friday.
“We want to make sure that people feed,” he said, referring to the hunger crisis in Gaza and saying he hoped to hear his report on the situation.
When asked if he trusted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to manage US help in Gaza, Trump said that “he is certainly a competent person” and added that he was still concerned about the help of Hamas robbery.
“The good management will stop that,” Trump said. “Hopefully the Israelis provide it.”
