US Trade Deals Prove Too Complex for Trump’s Fast Track
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Once upon a Liberation Day, this was going to be the week by which President Donald Trump would have renegotiated America’s trading relationships with the world.
We’re still waiting for the flurry of promised bilateral deals, which Trump telegraphed will start rolling out around noon today in Washington. On Sunday we got an indication the July 9 deadline may effectively be extended to Aug. 1. But we do know more than we did about what Trump wants the US’s economic connections with other countries to look like than we did 90 days ago.