“White House officials have boasted that more than a dozen countries have put offers ‘on the table’ to avoid the biting tariffs scheduled to kick in in just over two months — a sign President Donald Trump’s risky trade gambit is paying off,” Politico reports.
“But the documents other countries have submitted to the White House are far from final offers… Rather, they are preliminary outlines of what their governments are willing to discuss in the trade talks, something the Trump administration has made a prerequisite for pursuing any further negotiations.
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