The US Minister of Finance Scott Bessed He said that if there is no agreement with the United States within the next few days, the duties of up to 50% announced in April and their imposition was postponed to give the negotiations time would apply from August 1.

The July 9th deadline for the imposition of these punitive duties was in force until Friday when Donald Trump He clarified that countries will begin to pay from August 1st.

When asked what will happen on Wednesday, Scott Bessed told CNN: “We will be very busy in the coming 72 hours.”

“President Trump will send letters to some of our commercial partners who will say that if things do not go on, then, on August 1, they will return as Bubert to the level of April 2nd duties,” he explained. US Minister of Finance.

“Consequently, I think you will see many agreements very quickly,” he said, “there will be many important announcements in the coming days” rather than “very high resistance”.

“The US strategy consists of applying maximum pressure,” he said, citing as an example European Union.

“The European Union was very late to come to the negotiating table until three weeks ago, one Friday morning, President Trump threatened 50%,” he said. “In the following hours, five European leaders phoned him and the Ursula von der Layen Call, too. “The EU is making great progress.”

According to Scott Bessed, they will be sent about a hundred letters to small countries “with which we have a lot of trade”, but the government “focuses” on “eighteen important relationships that represent 95% of our commercial deficit”.