Trump gives countries Wednesday deadline for ‘best offer’ on trade talks

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WASHINGTON — President Trump has given countries a Wednesday deadline to make their best offers on trade — with the White House calling it a “deadline” to submit offers to avoid massive reciprocal tariffs due to take effect on July 8. The office of the US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer sent a letter, first reported Monday by Reuters, “to all of our trading partners just to give them a friendly reminder that the deadline is coming up,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed at her Tuesday briefing. Greer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “are in...