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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a reporter's question during an Ambassador Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the meeting, Trump answered questions from reporters on the news that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat of top administration officials, where highly sensitive national security information was discussed.   Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

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President Trump Attends Ambassador Meeting In White House Cabinet Room

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1743961581882AFP__20250326__2206891765__v3__Preview__PresidentTrumpAttendsAmbassadorMeetingInWhit.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a reporter&#x27;s question during an Ambassador Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee, Getty Images/AFP"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a reporter&#x27;s question during an Ambassador Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. <em>Win McNamee, Getty Images/AFP</em></span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON -- More than 50 countries have sought talks with President Donald Trump in a scramble to ease punishing tariffs on exports to the United States, the White House said Sunday, as trade partners braced for further fallout.</p><p>The Republican has remained defiant since unleashing the blitz of tariffs on stunned countries around the world Wednesday, insisting that his policies &quot;will never change&quot; even as markets went into a tailspin.</p><p>He took to the golf course Sunday, according to his own post on Truth Social.</p><p>Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel -- which has been hit with 17 percent tariffs, despite being one of Washington&#x27;s closest allies -- will fly in for crunch talks with Trump Monday on the levies.</p><p>Britain&#x27;s Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned in a newspaper op-ed that &quot;the world as we knew it has gone,&quot; saying the status quo would increasingly hinge on &quot;deals and alliances.&quot;</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2025/4/5/trump-s-global-tariff-takes-effect-in-dramatic-us-trade-shift-1351">READ: Trump&#x27;s global tariff takes effect in dramatic US trade shift</a></div><p>Trump&#x27;s staggered deadlines have left space for some countries to negotiate, even as he insisted he would stand firm and his administration warned against any retaliation.</p><p>&quot;More than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation,&quot; Kevin Hassett, head of the White House National Economic Council, told ABC&#x27;s This Week on Sunday, citing the US Trade Representative.</p><p>Vietnam, a manufacturing powerhouse that counted the US as its biggest export market in the first quarter, has already reached out and requested a delay of at least 45 days to thumping 46 percent tariffs imposed by Trump.</p><p>Hassett said countries seeking compromise were doing so &quot;because they understand that they bear a lot of the tariffs,&quot; as the administration continues to insist that the duties would not lead to major price rises in the United States.</p><p>&quot;I don&#x27;t think that you&#x27;re going to see a big effect on the consumer in the US,&quot; he said.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2025/4/5/trump-tariffs-upend-entrepreneur-s-american-dream-1841">READ: Trump tariffs upend entrepreneur&#x27;s &#x27;American dream&#x27;</a></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>- &#x27;Markets bloodbath&#x27; -</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zn_8RJdAU6U?&amp;pp=0gcJCb8Ag7Wk3p_U&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></div><p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also told NBC&#x27;s Meet the Press that 50 countries had reached out.</p><p>But as for whether Trump will negotiate with them, &quot;I think that&#x27;s a decision for President Trump,&quot; Bessent said.</p><p>&quot;At this moment he&#x27;s created maximum leverage for himself... I think we&#x27;re going to have to see what the countries offer, and whether it&#x27;s believable,&quot; Bessent said.</p><p>Other countries have been &quot;bad actors for a long time, and it&#x27;s not the kind of thing you can negotiate away in days or weeks,&quot; he claimed.</p><p>Despite hopes for negotiations to avert the worst economic carnage, there was widespread fear that the market&#x27;s bloodbath could continue into the new trading week.</p><p>In Saudi Arabia, where the markets were open Sunday, the bourse was down 6.78 percent -- the worst daily loss since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to state media.</p><p>Larry Summers, formerly Director of the National Economic Council under president Barack Obama, said &quot;there is a very good chance there&#x27;s going to be more turbulence in markets the way we saw on Thursday and Friday.&quot;</p><p>A drop like that following the announcement of tariffs &quot;signals that there&#x27;s likely to be trouble ahead, and people ought to be very cautious,&quot; he wrote on X.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/4/6/tens-of-thousands-march-in-us-against-trump-devastation-1006">READ: Tens of thousands march in US against Trump &#x27;devastation</a></div><p>Peter Navarro, Trump&#x27;s tariff guru, has pushed back against the mounting nervousness and insisted to investors that &quot;you can&#x27;t lose money unless you sell.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Right now, the smart strategy is not to panic, just stay in, because we are going to have the biggest boom in the stock market we&#x27;ve ever seen under the Trump policies,&quot; Navarro, who has become the public face of tariffs, told Fox News.</p><p>Russia has not been targeted by the latest raft of tariffs, and Hassett cited talks with Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine as the reason for their omission from the hit list.</p><p>&quot;There&#x27;s obviously an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine, and I think the President made the decision not to conflate the two issues. It doesn&#x27;t mean that Russia, in the fullest of time, is going to be treated wildly different than every other country,&quot; Hassett said.</p><p>On Wednesday a White House official suggested the reason for Russia&#x27;s omission was because trade was negligible thanks to sanctions.</p><p>Trump has long insisted that countries around the world that sell products to the United States are in fact ripping Americans off, and he sees tariffs as a means to right that wrong.</p><p>But many economists have warned that tariffs are passed on to consumers and that they could see price rises at home.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>More than 50 countries have sought talks with President Donald Trump in a scramble to ease punishing tariffs on exports to the United States, the White House said Sunday.</p>

More than 50 countries have sought talks with President Donald Trump in a scramble to ease punishing tariffs on exports to the United States, the White House said Sunday.

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World scrambles to temper Trump tariffs as market fears mount

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