Washington: US President Donald Trump stated he shouldn’t be planning to extend a 90-day pause on tariffs on most nations past July 9, when the negotiating interval he set would expire, and his administration will notify nations that the commerce penalties will take impact except there are offers with the United States. “I don’t think I’ll need to,” he stated in an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that was taped Friday. He then added, “I could, no big deal.”Letters will begin going out “pretty soon” earlier than the approaching deadline, he stated. “We’ll look at how a country treats us – are they good, are they not so good – some countries we don’t care, we’ll just send a high number out,” Trump instructed Fox News.Those letters, he stated, would say, “Congratulations, we’re allowing you to shop in the United States of America, you’re going to pay a 25% tariff, or a 35% or a 50% or 10%.”Trump had performed down the deadline at a White House information convention Friday by noting how troublesome it might be to work out separate offers with every nation. The administration had set a aim of reaching 90 commerce offers in 90 days. Negotiations proceed, however “there’s 200 countries, you can’t talk to all of them,” the President stated within the interview. France assured of EU deal French finance minister Eric Lombard stated the European Union can clinch some type of a commerce settlement with the US earlier than a July 9 deadline, when Washington is ready to impose a 50% tariff on almost all EU merchandise. (*9*) Lombard stated in an interview Sunday with La Tribune Dimanche newspaper. As a part of the negotiations between the EU and Washington, “there may be discussions on energy, particularly on liquefied natural gas,” he stated. “Europe is still buying Russian LNG. Three LNG liquefaction plants are under construction in the Gulf of Mexico. We can therefore increase our imports of American gas, and this could be used to avoid the 10% increase in customs tariffs,” Lombard added.