Trade negotiations with China set to resume this morning. Joining us now uh from Stockholm, US trade rep Jameson Greer. Um Mr.. Ambassador, thank you uh for joining us this morning. Of course. Great to be here again.How are you. Great. Do you want to look backwards or forward before we I mean we definitely want to talk about China, but uh we just had our own uh discussion about whether the the Japan deal, the EU deal, uh whether they were net positives for both countries, net negatives, whether someone wins ...

So, it's letters, letters, letters day. So, we have seven new letters today from President Trump to a variety of trading partners. He's promising more either later this afternoon or coming tomorrow morning.A big one that he said this afternoon was going to drop soon as Brazil. So, that that's a major trading partner. But what we have so far are threats of 20 to 30% tariffs on a range of countries from Algeria to Muldova that would take effect on August 1st.Um, and and this goes this is on top of 14 letters ...

Joining us now is Wendy Cutler, vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute. She's a former acting deputy at the US Trade Representatives Office and worked on negotiations including on the TPP deal and high level China talks. And Wendy, it's great to have you on the show.Welcome. Thank you. Um so, so let's start right there because we did see these deadlines for the cipal tariffs at least in terms of u the the companies for which these letters have gone out extended to August 1st.How much can get do ...

Sure. So, every tariff program that we have in place, and to be clear, we have like a variety of tariff of tariff programs in place, they each have their own different justification for why they're being done. Some are for national security, some are for dumping, some are for the emer the the national emergency of trade deficits.They all have a different justification, a different reason for for their existence, but they all have this side effect of bringing in revenue. And so, when we're thinking about rev ...