A top White House economic adviser said Sunday that more than 50 countries have contacted the Trump administration to initiate negotiations over a broad swath of tariffs that were announced last week on nearly every nation in the world.
In an interview with ABC News “This Week,” Kevin Hassett, the head of the White House’s National Economic Council, said that “there are more than 50 countries reaching out and trying to negotiate this new status with the president” since the tariffs were announced.
“They’re doing that because they understand that they bear a lot of the tariff,” he told the outlet….