Trump sets 19% tariff on Indonesia goods in latest trade deal - Not a lead story
The US president had earlier threatened Jakarta with a 32 per cent tariff rate effective Aug 1.
Former US President Donald Trump (left) and US President Joe Biden. (File Photos: Reuters/David Dee Delgado, Shannon Stapleton)
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Jul 15) said the United States would impose a 19 per cent tariff on goods from Indonesia under a new agreement with the Southeast Asian country and said more deals were in the works as he continued to press for what he views as better terms with trading partners and a path to reducing a massive US trade deficit.
The pact with the relatively minor US trading partner is among the handful struck so far by the Trump administration ahead of an Aug 1 deadline for tariffs on most US imports to rise again.
