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Trump trade adviser: Trump’s tariff rates ‘pretty much set’
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in an interview set to air Sunday that President Trump’s newly announced tariff rates are “pretty much set” and the public should not expect them to come down in the near future. “I don’t, I don’t think they will be in the coming days,” Greer said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” when asked whether he expects rates to be negotiated down in the coming days. He said many of the tariff rates announced “are set rates pursuant to deals.” “Some of these deals are announced, some are not, others depend on the level of the trade deficit or surplus we may ... (full story)