Trump Says He Doesn’t Expect to Extend July 9 Tariff Deadline

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t think he’ll need to extend the July 9 trade deadline he has imposed on countries to secure deals with the US to avoid higher tariffs.

“I don’t think I’ll need to,” he said in an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that was taped Friday. He then added, “I could, no big deal.”

The comments follow Trump’s remarks on Friday that the administration could do “whatever we want” with the deadline, including extending it or making it shorter.

“I’d like to make it shorter. I’d like to just send letters ...