{"id":76116,"date":"2025-05-31T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=76116"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:09:04","slug":"pakistani-officials-to-arrive-in-us-next-week-for-trade-discussions-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/pakistani-officials-to-arrive-in-us-next-week-for-trade-discussions-says-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani officials to arrive in US next week for trade discussions, says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (REUTERS): US President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/israel-approves-trumps-plan-for-truce-in-gaza\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> said that representatives from Pakistan are coming to the United States next week as the South Asian country seeks to make a deal on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-forms-steering-committee-to-implement-national-tariff-policy\/\">tariffs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan faces a potential 29% tariff on exports to the United States due to a $3 billion trade surplus with the world&#8217;s biggest economy, under tariffs announced by Washington last month on countries around the world. Tariffs were subsequently suspended for 90 days so negotiations could take place.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan last month decided to dispatch a high-level delegation to the US for negotiations aimed at enhancing bilateral trade relations and addressing concerns related to newly imposed US tariffs on Pakistani imports.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made on the instructions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a review meeting held in Islamabad on April 9, with the huddle focusing on increasing national exports and discussing the Washington&#8217;s recent tariff measures.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation will include prominent business figures and leading exporters, reflecting the government\u2019s intent to engage key stakeholders in shaping a mutually beneficial path forward.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s talk, Trump said he would have no interest in making a deal with the South Asian country or its neighbour, India, if they were to engage in war with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s remarks come a day after Pakistan formally kicked off negotiations with the US on reciprocal tariffs as Islamabad seeks to capitalise on the Trump administration\u2019s interest in boosting trade with South Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (REUTERS): US President Donald Trump said that representatives from Pakistan are coming to the United States next week as the South Asian country seeks to make a deal on tariffs. Pakistan faces a potential 29% tariff on exports to the United States due to a $3 billion trade surplus with the world&#8217;s biggest economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":68760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29166,121],"class_list":["post-76116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-trade-discussions","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76117,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76116\/revisions\/76117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}