What do you make of what we've seen so far in terms of some of these agreements between the US and other countries. As a former trade negotiator, the minute I heard about their objectives here, I just thought they were totally unrealistic. Trade negotiations take time.And the notion you're going to be simultaneously negotiating with dozens of countries just really limits the bandwidth of the negotiating teams. And so, yeah, I think more time is needed. August 1 now is the next deadline.And even though the p ...

A certain uncertainty. And that uncertainty is that, you know, again, we're facing a deadline of August 1st where we really don't know if President Trump is going to move forward with these tariff threats. You know, first it was Liberation Day, then it was July 9th.Now it's August 1st. But what we can say is, and this is what we're telling our clients, is that even though this process is going to continue to play out, a lot of it determines on the negotiation. So we're telling our clients, be very close to ...

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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 ...

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Washington. And we're going to stick with Washington. President Trump releasing new tariff letters to seven countries that outline more so-called reciprocal tariffs if they don't make deals by the 1 of August.Our Megan Cassella has the latest on that. Megan, hey John. So about 21 countries have now received those letters and the president just said in the last few minutes that more countries including Brazil could get letters today and tomorrow.But here's today's round. We can pull it up. the Philippines, I ...

Ian, always a pleasure to see you in the morning. Thanks for joining us. If you look at volatility, right, it looks like you haven't actually got back to anywhere near April.Second levels is such it kind of suggests that there is optimism there's going to be room for negotiation in these trade talks. You can see it in the gold price to down as well. Is this optimism on trade misplaced, do you think.I don't think so. I think what the market is learning and you said it very well, the market's got a bit of fat ...

uh secretary. Uh Mr.. Secretary, thank you so much for taking the time to join us. We saw a lot of the conversation that happened within that room, but we want to hear for the record from you, the commerce secretary, about just where you think we are with regard to trade negotiations as a whole as we approach that uh previously stated July 9th deadline for tariff deals. So you saw 14 letters went out yesterday. You should expect another anywhere from 15 to 20 letters to go out over the next two days really ...