Trade
US Tells Partners to Honor Tariff Deals as Trump Regroups
President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 20.
Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg
Senior US officials said President Donald Trump’s tariff defeat at the Supreme Court won’t unravel deals negotiated with US partners as they sought to defend the administration’s assertive trade policies.
Those deals — which the administration made with partners including China, the European Union, Japan and South Korea — remain in place, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. He sought to separate those arrangements from the planned 15% global tariff Trump announced Saturday.