Trump says his new high tariffs are going ‘very well, very smooth’ — but he’s open to more deals

Washington – President Donald Trump praised the new prices of new prices on the imports he imposed on global trade partners on Thursday evening, telling NBC News in a telephone interview that everything was “very well, very fluid”.

He also said that with only a few hours before his self-imposed midnight deadline for commercial transactions, it was “too late” for other countries to avoid the rate rates that should be set up next week, which he has formalized in a new decree.

But, he added, his door will always be open to convincing offers: “This does not mean that someone does not come in four weeks and say that we can conclude a kind of problem.”

In Thursday’s decree, Trump made its agreements official with business partners such as the European Union, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the Philippines.

The order of Trump unilaterally establishes the rates – which should come into force on August 7 – for trade partners who have not concluded agreements with him. For example, the rate of Switzerland will be set higher than previously threatened, at 39%, while that of Taiwan will be lower, at 20%.

Trump has boasted of pricing income that the United States already took – $ 26 billion in June, according to figures from the Treasury Department – and said there would be much more to come.

“We are going to welcome hundreds of billions of dollars, and very quickly,” he said.

When asked if he was concerned about the potential peaks in the prices of imported goods, Trump replied: “The only tip price is the hundreds of billions of dollars.”

Trump said he was open to new discussions with Canada and said he could even speak Prime Minister Mark Carney later Thursday evening, but he said he would not materialize the country before the deadline.

Trump also said that he did not know Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula from Silva, the recent New York Times interview, suggesting that Brazil was ready to dig and postpone the American prices program.

Speaking of his tenor, Trump replied: “It’s ok. But he doesn’t have to do business with the United States, which suits me.”

Trump also discussed the next trip to Steve Witkoff’s special envoy and the United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who will go to the Gaza Strip on Friday.

“We want to make sure that people are fed,” he said, referring to the hunger crisis in Gaza and saying that he was looking forward to hearing their report on the situation.

A senior White House official told NBC News this week that Trump had been “disturbed” by photos of hungry children in Gaza.

“We can save a lot of people,” Trump said at a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland on Monday. “I mean, some of these children are – it’s real things of famine. I see it, and you cannot simulate it. So we are going to be even more involved.”

Asked Thursday if he trusted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to administer aid in the United States to Gaza, Trump said that “he is certainly a competent person” and added that he had been concerned about Hamas.

“Good management will stop this,” said Trump. “I hope the Israelis will provide it.”