Countries with no trade deal will hear from US by midnight, White House says


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  • Friday, 01 Aug 2025

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 31, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Countries that haven't negotiated a trade deal or received a tariff letter from the Trump administration will be hearing the from the U.S. about the terms of trade by the end of the day, the White House said on Thursday.

"The trade team has been working around the clock to try to be in correspondence with as many countries as possible, but if they haven't heard from us yet, they will in the form of a letter or an executive order by midnight tonight," spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters at the White House.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

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