During Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about tariff negotiation updates.
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00:00Jennifer.
00:01One on tariffs and one on Russia.
00:03Can you give us any sort of an update on which deals are in hand or are close, which
00:08countries are reaching a deal on tariffs?
00:10And then on Russia, can you give us an update on what the agreement was with Russia?
00:14The President yesterday said that he thinks we'll be seeing some very good deals very
00:17soon.
00:18Can you talk a little bit about what Russia agreed to?
00:20MS.
00:21Sure.
00:22I don't want to get ahead of our United States Trade Ambassador and Secretary of Commerce,
00:25the Secretary of Treasury, all the great individuals who are working incredibly hard
00:28to cut these good trade deals.
00:30And the President is deeply involved in this as well.
00:32He has made it clear to his trade team he wants to personally sign off on all of these
00:36deals, too.
00:37And so I don't want to get ahead of them on announcements.
00:39But obviously, as you've heard from numerous administration officials, there have been many
00:44talks with countries.
00:45We've had more than 15 deals, pieces of paper put on the table, proposals that are actively
00:50being considered.
00:51And as we've said consistently, more than 75 countries have reached out.
00:55So there's a lot of work to do.
00:56We very much understand that.
00:58But we do believe that we can announce some deals very soon.