<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/us-pushes-countries-best-offers-by-wednesday-tariff-deadline-looms-2025-06-02/">https://www.reuters.com/business/us-pushes-countries-best-offers-by-wednesday-tariff-deadline-looms-2025-06-02/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><h1 class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__medium__1kbOh gmail-text__heading_article__3WgTF gmail-heading__base__2T28j gmail-heading__heading_article__2uc0a gmail-headline__headline__3kky1" style="font-size:40px;line-height:48px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:500;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Exclusive: US pushes countries for best offers by Wednesday as tariff deadline looms</h1><div class="gmail-info-content__info__2bKqs gmail-default-article-header__info-content__1YNDO" style="display:flex;column-gap:12px;margin-top:8px"><div class="gmail-info-content__author-date__1Epi_" style="display:flex"><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__medium__1kbOh gmail-text__tag_label__6ajML" style="font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__tag_label__6ajML" style="letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;margin:0px;padding:0px">By </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/authors/jarrett-renshaw/" rel="author" class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__medium__1kbOh gmail-text__tag_label__6ajML gmail-link__link__3Ji6W gmail-link__underline_on_hover__2zGL4 gmail-author-name__author__au-bT" style="letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(64,64,64);display:inline">Jarrett Renshaw</a></div><span class="gmail-date-line__date___kNbY">June 3, 2025</span><span class="gmail-date-line__date___kNbY">1:54 AM EDT</span></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span><b>Summary</b><br></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>•<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trump administration wants countries to detail tariff rates, potential US investments<br></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>•<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trade group welcomes move to accelerate trade talks<br></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>•<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>USTR draft letter reveals urgency to finalize deals with trading partners<br></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>• Court ruling challenges legality of Trump's sweeping tariff policies</div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">June 2 (Reuters) - The Trump administration wants countries to provide their best offer on trade negotiations by Wednesday as officials seek to accelerate talks with multiple partners ahead of a self-imposed deadline in just five weeks, according to a draft letter to negotiating partners seen by Reuters.</div><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">The draft, from the office of the United States Trade Representative, provides a window into how President <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump/" class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__inherit-color__3208F gmail-text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 gmail-text__inherit-size__1DZJi gmail-link__link__3Ji6W gmail-link__underline_default__2prE_" style="font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-transform:inherit;color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">Donald Trump</a> plans to bring to a close unwieldy negotiations with dozens of countries that kicked off on April 9 when he <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-latest-tariffs-loom-set-deepen-global-trade-war-2025-04-09/" class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__inherit-color__3208F gmail-text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 gmail-text__inherit-size__1DZJi gmail-link__link__3Ji6W gmail-link__underline_default__2prE_" style="font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-tran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y Smith, vice president of global trade policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, welcomed the USTR moves.</div><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">"We are encouraged that USTR is moving negotiations ahead as quickly as they can," she told Reuters, adding that trade deals that removed barriers for U.S. companies abroad and lowered U.S. tariffs would be "a win-win if they are done in a way that returns predictability and stability to trade relationships."</div><div class="gmail-article-body__element__2p5pI" style="font-size:12px;margin:24px 0px;width:708.5625px"></div><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Trump's ambitious - and often frenetic - tariff policy is a pillar of his "America First" economic agenda as he seeks to reshape U.S. trade relationships, reduce trade deficits and protect American industries. Republican lawmakers are also banking on tariffs to add to federal revenue and offset the cost of the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-sweeping-tax-cut-bill-includes-provision-weaken-court-powers-2025-05-30/" class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__inherit-color__3208F gmail-text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 gmail-text__inherit-size__1DZJi gmail-link__link__3Ji6W gmail-link__underline_default__2prE_" style="font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-transform:inherit;color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">tax cut legislation</a> now working its way through Congress.</div><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Trump's tariff policies have taken investors on a rollercoaster ride. In May, U.S. stocks held their biggest rally of any month since November 2023, but that was after global indexes had cratered under the barrage of Trump's tariff announcements through February, March and early April.</div><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Stocks were little changed on Monday afternoon after Trump announced a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-he-plans-double-steel-tariffs-50-2025-05-30/" class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__inherit-color__3208F gmail-text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 gmail-text__inherit-size__1DZJi gmail-link__link__3Ji6W gmail-link__underline_default__2prE_" style="font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-transform:inherit;color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">surprise doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports</a> on Friday at an event in Pittsburgh.</div><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Meanwhile, the legality of the approach used for imposing the most sweeping of his tariffs has been cast into doubt.</div><div class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__dark-grey__3Ml43 gmail-text__regular__2N1Xr gmail-text__small__1kGq2 gmail-body__full_width__ekUdw gmail-body__small_body__2vQyf gmail-article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" style="font-size:medium;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Last Wednesday, the Court of International Trade ruled that Trump had overstepped his authority with tariffs devised under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, including the "Liberation Day" levies and earlier ones imposed on goods from Canada, Mexico and China related to Trump's accusations that the three countries have facilitated the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. Less than 24 hours later, an <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/us-courts-tariff-ruling-gives-markets-short-term-pop-long-term-angst-2025-05-29/" class="gmail-text__text__1FZLe gmail-text__inherit-color__3208F gmail-text__inhe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