Trump signs order offering some tariff exemptions to countries with trade deals

6/9/2025 12:33

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order offering some tariff exemptions as soon as Monday to trading partners who strike deals on industrial exports such as nickel, gold and other metals, as well as pharmaceutical compounds and chemicals.



Trump has spent his first seven months in office building up massive tariff increases to reorder the global trading system, cut U.S. trade deficits and extract concessions from trading partner countries in negotiations.



His latest order identifies more than 45 categories for zero import tariffs from "aligned partners" who clinch framework pacts to cut Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs and duties imposed under the Section 232 national security statute.



Friday's order brings U.S. tariffs in line with its commitments in existing framework deals, including those with allies such as Japan and the European Union.

The exemptions for countries with U.S. trade deals are set to begin at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, it said.



In the order, Trump says his willingness to reduce tariffs depends on the "scope and economic value of a trading partner’s commitments to the United States in its agreement on reciprocal trade" and U.S. national interests.