米、4日までの最善交渉案提示を要請 ホワイトハウスが確認
[ワシントン 3日 ロイター] - 米ホワイトハウスのレビット報道官は3日、貿易相手国に4日までに最善の貿易交渉案を提示するよう求めたことを認めた。相互関税の上乗せ部分を一時停止する措置の期限が約5週間後の7月8日に迫る中、それまでにトランプ大統領に複数の合意を提示するため取り組みを加速している。
レビット氏は「書簡の本質と内容を確認できる。米通商代表部(USTR)は期限が迫っているという親切なリマインダーとして、この書簡を全ての貿易パートナーに送った」と述べた。
書簡によると、トランプ政権がリストアップを求めた他の項目にはデジタル貿易や経済安全保障に関する確約のほか、国別の特定の約束も含まれている。
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Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters. He has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the presidential campaigns of Biden, Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. He served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2016-2017, leading the press corps in advocating for press freedom in the early days of the Trump administration. His and the WHCA's work was recognized with Deutsche Welle's "Freedom of Speech Award." Jeff has asked pointed questions of domestic and foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. He is a winner of the WHCA's “Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure" award and co-winner of the Association for Business Journalists' "Breaking News" award. Jeff began his career in Frankfurt, Germany as a business reporter before being posted to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. Jeff appears regularly on television and radio and teaches political journalism at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a former Fulbright scholar.