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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, declared this Wednesday that his Administration will inform its trade partners "in a week and a half, two weeks", establishing unilateral tariffs, before the deadline of July 9 when the "reciprocal" duties come into effect.

"We are going to send letters in about a week and a half, two weeks, to the countries, telling them what the agreement is. At some point, we will just send letters. And I think they will understand, telling them 'this is the deal, you can take it or leave it. You don't have to use it. You don't have to buy in the United States, as I said before,'" he stated to the press from the Kennedy Center in Washington, where he was attending a show.

The occupant of the White House has again defended that his Administration is "dealing with quite a few countries and they all want to reach an agreement with us", although he ruled out that an extension of the deadline for the implementation of the tariffs is a "necessity".

The American president already indicated in mid-May that he would set tariff rates, also within a period of "two or three weeks" since then. A month earlier, he announced an increase in tariffs on dozens of trade partners, although he decided to pause them for 90 days while the markets were collapsing and investors feared that these would trigger a global recession.