U.S. Trade Partners Scramble for Deals Amid Trump’s Tariff Threats

Welcome again to world brief, where we look at it we Commercial threats, French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to UKAnd deadly protests in Kenya.

A deal or a deal

On Monday, US President Donald Trump informed Japan and South Korea, and 12 other countries that it would face a tariff more than 25 percent from August 1 unless new trade agreements with the United States. The ads, which were sent with a message to individual countries, are amid the largest Trump war that he started in April, after which he issued a 10 percent basic tariff for all commercial partners and gave countries 90 days to negotiate bilateral agreements. This deadline has been appointed this week but was now paid to August 1.

Welcome again to world brief, where we look at it we Commercial threats, French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to UKAnd deadly protests in Kenya.

A deal or a deal

On Monday, US President Donald Trump informed Japan and South Korea, and 12 other countries that it would face a tariff more than 25 percent from August 1 unless new trade agreements with the United States. The ads, which were sent with a message to individual countries, are amid the largest Trump war that he started in April, after which he issued a 10 percent basic tariff for all commercial partners and gave countries 90 days to negotiate bilateral agreements. This deadline has been appointed this week but was now paid to August 1.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigro Eshiba described the “very unfortunate” tariff, but he indicated that his government will continue to negotiate with Washington to try to find a solution. The new government in South Korea has held emergency meetings to discuss the threat of customs tariffs.

As of now, China, the United Kingdom and Vietnam have managed to lock limited and partial commercial deals with Washington. Indonesia, which faces a 32 percent tariff on exports to the United States, offered the purchase of American wheat products, soybeans, cotton and energy worth $ 34 billion. Thailand made a last effort to reduce its trade surplus with the United States by 70 percent within five years. Meanwhile, Trump indicated that Washington is about to reach a business agreement with New Delhi; However, the two countries have not yet agreed on the United States, which may genetically modified crops to India.

On Tuesday, Trump repeated his threat to impose 10 percent of the customs tariffs on the BRICS member states, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and five other countries, accusing them of being “hostile to America” ​​and trying to destroy the US dollar. At the end of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro during the weekend, Brazilian President Luiz Inosio Lula da Silva said the world does not need an “emperor”, referring to Trump’s threat.

However, even as diplomats and commercial negotiators compete for the final touches on commercial deals with Washington, there are still questions about whether the White House will adhere to the deadline of August or whether other commercial barriers will be published in the listening period.

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What we are following

Bibi-Trump meeting, Part Two. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump again on Tuesday evening for further discussion of Gaza, and the US President confirmed during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The two leaders have already met at the White House on Monday to discuss many high risk issues, including the ceasefire deal in Israel, Hamas, the Iranian nuclear program, and the potential normalization of Israeli Arab relations.

The White House and the Arab mediators are working to secure the ceasefire in Gaza, which involves a 60 -day truce and a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Although Trump indicated that this week’s deal may be achieved, Israeli officials said on Tuesday that it might take more than a few days to reach an agreement.

The Israeli leader also met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s private envoy to the Middle East, Steve Whitchov, on Monday. It is expected to stay in Washington until Thursday to meet with Vice President JD Vance as well as members of Congress.

French in England. French President Emmanuel Macron began a three -day trip to the United Kingdom on Tuesday with migration and defense on the agenda. The journey was the first visit to the United Kingdom by a French leader since 2008 and the first by the European Union leader since Britain left the European Union.

The journey comes at a time when Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces political turmoil at home, as well as moving in challenges to European security in the second Trump state. Starmer and Macron have been appointed to discuss ways to curb the flow of asylum seekers crossing the English channel, which separates southern England from northern France. One of these experimental plans on the table is a “one in or outside” deal that would allow the United Kingdom to send it to France, an illegal immigrant on a boat in exchange for accepting asylum seeking from France

Macron and Starmer, who have worked closely in the past few months, will discuss pressure to increase European support and the United States for Kev, the “Alliance from Wish” initiative that aims to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, and will meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Voludimmerezki, and Jarman Ferdrich Miraz’s advisor.

“We are facing new threats, with aggressive nuclear authorities, with hesitant alliances,” Macron said in a speech to the British parliament on Tuesday. “The UK cannot remain on the margin. We must move forward forward.”

The deadly protests in Kenya. The country’s national police service said on Monday that at least 11 people were killed and more than 500 people were arrested during anti -government protests throughout Kenya. The demonstrations celebrated the thirty -fifth anniversary of Real Saba Saba in Kenya, which launched the country’s batch for multi -party democracy in 1990, and continued the deadly protests that started last year on the controversial tax reform of the Kenyan President.

Although the Kenyan government withdrew its tax bill last June, the death of Albert Oujuang, the Kenyan teacher and blogger who died in the police seizure in Nairobi last month, sparked anger on government and brutal police corruption in addition to wider grievances such as the country’s escalating debt problem. The state -run human rights committee accused the police of using excessive force as well as cooperation with “armed criminal gangs” in Nairobi and other cities to suppress the protests.

“Even in Kenya – which has good democratic traditions, political stability, and impressive economic growth – we described the people who spoke to how many of the country’s resources are lost, stolen, or lost by corrupt or incompetent government officials,” American Senator Chris Murphy wrote in Foreign policy last year.

Difficulties end

The US Transport Security Administration is said to be planning to allow travelers at some major American airports to keep their shoes as the public security line has passed. The gradual disposal of the shoe disposal policy, which was implemented in 2006, may be eliminated after a man of explosives in his shoes tried while on a plane flying from Paris to Miami, early on Sunday, according to an internal memorandum that ABC News seen. Although the agency, which is part of the Ministry of Internal Security, has not officially announced policy, some passengers may see this step in the right direction.