Trump administration extends timeline for tariff negotiations

Mihaela Chircă

July 6 (UPI) -- Tariffs are set to return to previous levels on the first of August for countries that haven't agreed on new deals, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday. Bessent said on CNN's " State of the Union " Sunday, just three days prior to the Trump administration's July 9 deadline for tariffs to return, that it would be notifying 100 smaller countries that "if you don't move things along, then on August 1, you will boomerang back to your April 2 tariff level." The tariffs were