Headline Roundup • April 8th, 2025
Which Countries Want to Negotiate Tariffs?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Donald Trump's tariffs have left some countries scrambling to negotiate deals to alleviate the fallout; others are condemning the tariffs and vowing to counteract them. According to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, 50 countries have reached out to “explore how to achieve reciprocity.”
The Details: Trump has stated that if “fair deals” and “good deals” can be made with foreign countries, he will be open to reaching agreements to lower the imposed tariffs. The White House is starting by focusing on non-tariff related measures that they say impede US exports. However, these negotiations are unlikely to take place before the tariffs take effect.
For Context: Trump said he is looking for tailor-made deals with each country. So far, negotiations have started with South Korea and Israel, and Trump instructed his team to begin talks with Japan. Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and the European Union have reached out with their own offers, and other countries expressed interest in diplomacy, including India, Indonesia, and the UK.
How The Media Covered It: Fox Business (Lean Right) quoted representatives of various countries, emphasizing that they want to negotiate with the US. CNN Business (Lean Left) quoted Greer and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), who said tariffs are “clobbering American families and small businesses.” It added that Greer “also pointed to the prominent role that so-called non-trade barriers are playing in Trump’s trade policy, one of them being foreign countries’ regulations rooted in 'fake science.'”
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Trump told reporters Monday he’s “not looking at” issuing a blanket pause on his tariffs, but he was open to reaching deals with other countries on the tariffs he’s imposed “if we can make a really fair deal, a really good deal for the United States.”
Trump said there may be negotiations for some countries’ tariffs while others’ would remain “permanent,” telling reporters, “We’re going to get fair deals and good deals” with foreign countries—”and if we don’t, we’ll have nothing to do with them.”
President Donald Trump’s US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday defended the administration’s expansive tariffs during a routine hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.
“Last Wednesday, President Trump declared a national emergency in response to the large and persistent trade deficit that has built up in recent years,” Greer said in his prepared remarks. “This deficit is driven in part by non- reciprocal tariffs, trading barriers, and other economic policies pursued by our foreign trading partners. President Trump imposed tariffs to address this emergency.”
Indonesia and other countries are lining up Tuesday at the negotiating table in hopes of striking deals with the Trump administration over the sweeping reciprocal tariffs announced against them last week.
The developments come as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke with a top Chinese official to push for "a negotiated resolution to the current situation, emphasizing the need to avoid further escalation." President Donald Trump warned yesterday that he would impose an additional 50% tariff on China if it did not withdraw the recent 34% retaliatory tariffs it announced against the...
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