Jameson Greer
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We have some that have higher at 15%.
And so our goal with all of this is to have continuity.
So we want to have the 10% and we're looking about how to implement the 15% that the president indicated because we want to have continuity.
We want the countries, we want the companies, we want people to understand that what we were doing before, we're going to reconstruct with alternative tools because we want to keep going, maintain the policy.
We'll just have a change in the legal implementing authority.
So we'll put out a supplemental proclamation that the president will sign going to 15% where appropriate.
Remember, before the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs, a lot of these countries had agreed to have tariffs, U.S.
tariffs on them of 18%, 19%, 20%.
So going up to 15%.
For them, at least temporarily, it's better than the deal that they had.
And so the president wants to make sure, again, that we have continuity in this process, that folks who acknowledge they had giant trade surpluses with us, they had unfair trading practices affecting their trade, and who agreed to pay the tariff, that they actually are in a position to do it until we can get the more durable and long-lasting measures in place.
Oh, it'll be in coming days.
It's soon, right?
I mean, the president put out this direction, to your point, and so all of that is in development.
So that will be soon.
Again, the idea is to establish a through line from the policy that the president has implemented successfully over the past year and continue it over this 150 days and as we build up appropriate terror freights using other investigations and means.
So...
So I've been in constant contact with my counterparts in Brussels, the UK, and elsewhere.
And the way to think about this is every country has domestic procedures that they need to go through to come into compliance with a deal.
With Brussels, we gave them a good rate on cars.