Trump says that the EU does not offer a fair trade agreement, Japan is also “hard”

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Tuesday that Japan was being “difficult” in commercial conversations and that the European Union had not yet offered what it considered a fair treatment, since a team led by the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, stayed at the G7 meeting in Canada to continue working on commercial problems after the abrupt early game of Trump.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that the EU would need to offer Washington “a good business” or face higher rates.

Trump spoke after leaving the group of seven early summit to focus on the Middle East, disappointing the commercial partners who expected to progress in the spiny commercial conversations. He told journalists that Besent was staying in Kananaskis, Alberta, to continue talking with counterparts about commerce.

White House officials said the United States commercial representative Jamieson Greer and the director of the National Council of Economy, Kevin Hassett, also remained in Canada and met with their counterparts. They said that Trump met informally with all the members of the G7, but he had not seen the leaders of India, Australia or Mexico, who were also scheduled to meet with him in Canada this week.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum later tweeted on the day she had a “very good” phone call with Trump on Tuesday and agreed to work together to reach an agreement on “various topics.” The White House then confirmed the call.

“We are talking, but I still don't think they are offering fair treatment,” Trump told reporters, referring to the European Union. “Or they will make a good treatment or simply pay what we say they have to pay.”

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, told journalists outside the G7 summit that the goal was still to reach an agreement before the highest reciprocal rates came into force on July 9 after a 90 -day pause.

“It is complex, but we are moving forward, that is good, and I press a lot to get more speed, so we are mixed in the negotiations, and we will see what the end brings,” he said.

Greta Peisch, Wiley Red's trade lawyer in Washington, said Trump's departure was disappointing for commercial partners, since she led the commercial policy and that sometimes it was not clear what compensation was willing to do.

“If you do not have a clear vision of what that is … that can obviously slow down things and make it more difficult to conclude negotiations,” he said.

Trump also said there was a possibility of a commercial agreement between Washington and Japan.

“They are difficult, the Japanese are difficult, but ultimately, you have to understand that we are only going to send a letter that says 'this is what you are going to pay, otherwise you do not have to do business with us.' But there is a possibility,” he said.

Trump also said.

“We are going to do pharmaceutical products very soon. That will bring all the companies back to the United States,” he said, referring to an ongoing investigation of the Department of Commerce under Section 232 of the Commercial Expansion Law of 1962. “It will bring most of them back, at least partially back.”

Matthew Goodman, former high official and member of the United States in the Foreign Relations Council, said it was always a “stretch objective” for Trump to reach any agreement at the G7 summit beyond completing the terms of a limited agreement with Great Britain.

The agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, announced by Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside the G7 summit in Canada, reaffirmed quotas and rates in British cars and eliminated tariffs in the United Kingdom aerospace sector, but the problem of steel and aluminum remained unsolved.

More than a dozen other important commercial partners of the United States are still in conversations to resolve agreements with Trump before the three -month parenthesis on their broad “day of release” expires the “release day” rates in approximately three weeks.

“I think that July 9 is the real deadline. It was then that the 90 -day break ends, and I suspect that Trump and his team are trying to use it as the maximum pressure for countries to give more land,” said Goodman.

Trump has indicated that he could extend the deadline for the countries that participated in the negotiations, but repeated his threat of sending letters to other countries that simply explain the tariffs of the United States they would face.