Trump relocates the tariff goals from trade agreements

“The Art of the Deal,” said the author President Donald Trump in a surprising comment on Tuesday that the United States does not have to sign “business” with trading partners, although the top officials of the White House claim that such business is the top priority of the administration.

“Everyone says: 'When, when, when will you sign shops?'” Trump grumbled with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during a meeting of the White House.

“We don't have to sign shops, you have to sign business with us. You want a piece of our market. We don't want a piece of your market,” said Trump.

After weeks of awareness of how many countries asked for bilateral trade talks with the United States, the president and his team do not yet have to announce any formal agreements or framework conditions.

“I wish you would … stop asking how many offers do you sign this week?” Trump said clearly frustrated about the increasing pressure on the white house to show progress in the trade talks. “Because one day we come and give them 100 offers,” he said.

Trump's efforts to expose trading transactions on Tuesday marked a phrase of what his finance minister has to share the day before.

The United States is “very close to some shops,” said Scott Bessent about “Money Movers”.

Trump himself said on Sunday in Air Force One that trade transactions could be introduced this week. “In the end, I put on the deal,” he told reporters on the way to Washington.

Trump spoke last week during a newsnation and also said that his government had “potential business” with India, South Korea and Japan.

He also said last week that negotiations with India “get together” and the USA “probably have a contract with India”.

On Tuesday, however, Trump accused Top helpers such as Bessent and Commercial Secretary Howard Lutnick to over -press trade agreements.

“I think my people didn't make it clear, we will sign some offers,” said Trump. “But much greater than that is that we will lower the price that people have to pay to buy in the USA. Consider us as a great luxury business, a business with goods.”

The US markets moved lower on Tuesday afternoon after Trump made the comments on shops.

Investors and managing directors desperate that the Trump administration can negotiate a number of bilateral agreements with large US trade partners such as Japan, South Korea and India before the full main load of the tariff -induced trade brackets hits the US economy.

So far, however, the Trump administration has not made any details about specific offers. Instead, the top helpers publicly claim that several shops are “tight” and could be announced within a few days.