The White House issued a fact sheet Nov. 14 confirming a trade deal with Switzerland that sets a "cumulative reciprocal tariff rate of no higher than 15%" for Switzerland, giving it the "same treatment given to the European Union."
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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump promised to give dividends of $2,000 to Americans from the revenues collected from his tariff policy.
After a visit from five Central Asian presidents, President Donald Trump posted on social media that Uzbekistan will do a combination of purchases of U.S. exports and investments in the U.S. worth almost $35 billion over the next three years. He said these purchases and investments would be in critical minerals, aviation, auto parts, energy and chemicals, infrastructure, agriculture and information technology.
President Donald Trump won't attend the oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the legality of his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs on countries around the world, he announced Nov. 2.
In a hearing on the nominations for the chief agricultural negotiator and the deputy U.S. trade representative responsible for Africa, the Western Hemisphere and Europe, senators from both parties criticized the decision to import Argentinian beef and complained about foreign non-tariff barriers in agriculture.
A majority of senators voted to end the emergency underpinning an additional 40% tariff on the majority of Brazilian goods, with four Republicans joining the entire Democratic caucus.
President Donald Trump wrote on social media that because of the "serious misrepresentation of the facts" in an ad the government of Ontario ran during the World Series, using excerpts of a Ronald Reagan speech, "I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now. " It's not clear what this would apply to.
President Donald Trump, after a commercial aired in Ontario with audio from Ronald Reagan pointing out that tariffs harm the country that imposes them, declared on social media after 11 p.m. Oct. 23, "Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED."
President Donald Trump pushed back on complaints from cattle ranchers and politicians who have large cattle industries in their states, arguing that the 50% tariff he put on Brazilian beef already juiced their bottom lines.
President Donald Trump said on social media that the CEOs of General Motors and Ford, Mary Barra and Bill Ford, “just called to thank me for putting Tariffs on Mid Size and Large Size Trucks. Their Stock has gone through the roof! They told me that, without Tariffs, it would be a very hard, long ‘slog’ for Truck and Car Manufacturers in the United States. I told them, it’s very simple, this is a National Security matter. With the Tariffs, we have a strong and powerful Economy and Country. Without them, we have the exact opposite!”