During a recent visit to Middle Eastern countries, U.S. President Trump stated that the United States will unilaterally impose new tariffs on multiple countries "within the next two to three weeks" while meeting with corporate executives in the United Arab Emirates, and that these tariffs will be higher. He mentioned that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent( and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick) will "send letters, basically notifying countries" to clarify the "costs that need to be paid to do business in the U.S.".

Tariff negotiations are progressing slowly.
Looking back to early April of this year, Trump announced an executive order to impose a universal tariff of at least 10% on all imported goods and to implement higher "reciprocal tariffs" on multiple countries. However, perhaps due to the significant impact of tariffs on the global economy, Trump subsequently announced a 90-day delay in the implementation of the tariffs, maintaining only the 10% baseline tariff, which provided room for negotiation between the United States and other countries.

However, to this day, the progress of tariff negotiations appears to be very slow. According to public reports, the United States has currently only reached a limited trade agreement with the United Kingdom; meanwhile, although the U.S. and China have also cut tariffs, the U.S. will reduce tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, while China will reduce tariffs on U.S. goods from 125% to 10%, but the deep-seated differences between the two sides remain unresolved; in addition, negotiations with other major trading partners such as Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and the European Union have yet to yield substantial progress, indicating that the U.S. is facing challenges in its goal of reducing the trade deficit.