{"id":18519,"date":"2025-07-08T16:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18519"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:29:38","slug":"trump-team-moves-goalposts-on-tariffs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18519","title":{"rendered":"Trump team moves goalposts on tariffs again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Tariffs will revert back to their April 2 rates on Aug. 1 for countries that fail to nail down new trade deals with the United States, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, just three days before the Trump administration\u2019s initial July 9 deadline for tariffs to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bessent told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d that the Trump administration would be sending out letters to 100 smaller countries \u201csaying that if you don\u2019t move things along, then on August 1st, you will boomerang back to your April 2nd tariff level.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/06\/bessent-trump-tariffs-deadline-august-00440522\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/06\/bessent-trump-tariffs-deadline-august-00440522<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tariffs will revert back to their April 2 rates on Aug. 1 for countries that fail to nail down new trade deals with the United States, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, just three days before the Trump administration\u2019s initial July 9 deadline for tariffs to return.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d that the Trump administration would be sending out letters to 100 smaller countries \u201csaying that if you don\u2019t move things along, then on August 1st, you will boomerang back to your April 2nd tariff level.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/06\/bessent-trump-tariffs-deadline-august-00440522<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,272,355,290,314,208,141,170],"class_list":["post-18519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-imports","tag-international-relations","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18520,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519\/revisions\/18520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}