Hassett suggests 8 trade deals with other countries are locked in
White House national economic adviser Kevin Hassett suggested Sunday that the eight trade deals that the U.S. has secured are locked in when asked if those tariff rates could change.
“I think the these we have eight deals that cover about 55% of world GDP with our biggest trading partners, the EU and Japan and Korea and so on. And I expect that those batters are more or less locked in, although there will have to be some, you know, dancing around the edges about exactly what we mean when we do this or that, for the deals that aren't ready yet, they're going to get the reciprocal rates soon, and then we would expect that there might continue to be negotiations with those countries,” Hasset told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

When asked directly if those eight deals are secured, Hassett said Trump has the final decision but added the president likes those deals.
“Yeah, the president will decide what the president decides, but the president likes those deals. The Europeans like those deals, and they're absolutely, historically wonderful deals,” Hassett said.
When Trump first announced his rounds of tariffs in April, he backtracked when the market reacted to the announcement. Asked if a market reaction could prompt Trump to change these tariff rates, Hassett said the markets have already seen what is happening with the tariffs and are reacting well.
“The markets have seen what we're doing and celebrated them, and so I don't see how that would happen,” he said.
Asked directly if he was ruling out a change in tariff rates depending on how the markets reacted, Hassett said, “No, I would rule it out, because these are the final deals,” Hassett said.
-ABC News’ Hannah Demissie







