July 9 tariffs now officially TACO TUESDAY

[SteveG]

No tariffs on Chickens!


Trump and US commerce secretary say tariffs are delayed until 1 August
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...riff-delay

Donald Trump said on Sunday that his administration plans to start sending letters on Monday to US trade partners, dictating new tariff rates to be imposed on goods they sell to Americans. “It could be 12, maybe 15,” the president told reporters, “and we’ve made deals also, so we’re going to have a combination of letters and some deals have been made.”
With his previously announced 90-day pause on tariffs set to end on 9 July, the president was asked if the new rates would go into effect this week, or on 1 August, as some officials had suggested.

“No, they’re going to be tariffs, the tariffs, the tariffs are going to be, the tariffs,” the President began, uncertainly, “I think we’ll have most countries done by July 9, yeah. Either a letter or a deal.”

Sensing the confusion, his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick jumped in to add: “But they go into effect on August 1. Tariffs go into effect August 1, but the president is setting the rates and the deals right now.”

Howie and Donald make such a great team, doncha think?

[PeterB]

I saw that this morning on the political talk shows.

The problem is that trade deals typically take YEARS to set up. Dump has no concept of anything taking that long. After all, he said that there's be peace in the Middle East and that the Russia-Ukraine War would be over within 24 hours of his taking office?

[jonny]

TACO Tuesday.

Love it.

[SteveG]

Trump will send more tariff letters to foreign leaders 'in the coming days', White House says

Donald Trump will send foreign leaders more letters notifying them of new tariffs in the days to come, said Karoline Leavitt.

“There will be additional letters in the coming days,” the White House press secretary said, in addition to the 12 he plans to send today and the two already made public, which were to South Korea and Japan’s leaders,

As for why Trump decided to start with the two Asian allies, Leavitt said:

It’s the president’s prerogative and those are the countries he chose.

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Trump has been posting more letters to world leaders on Truth Social, announcing new tariffs set to kick in from August.

These include:

25% US tariffs on goods from Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Kazakhstan

30% US tariffs on South Africa

40% US tariffs on Laos and Myanmar