U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte successful the Oval Office astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., July 14, 2025.
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President Donald Trump connected Monday threatened to enforce "secondary tariffs" connected Russia's commercialized partners "at astir 100%" if President Vladimir Putin does not hold to a woody to extremity his penetration of Ukraine successful 50 days.
"We're very, precise unhappy with them, and we're going to beryllium doing precise terrible tariffs, if you don't person a woody successful 50 days, tariffs astatine astir 100%, they telephone them secondary tariffs," Trump said from the White House portion gathering with NATO's caput general, Mark Rutte.
The president said that helium is "disappointed" with Putin, due to the fact that helium thought they would person had a woody months ago.
If a ceasefire woody is not reached by September, said Trump, "we're going to beryllium doing secondary tariffs."
Trump besides announced Monday that the United States would nonstop "billions of dollars worthy of subject equipment" purchased from American companies, paid for by European countries and delivered to NATO allies to beryllium sent connected to Ukraine.
Trump's announcement — coupled with the secondary tariff menace against Russia — marks a displacement successful the president's enactment for Ukraine, and underscores his increasing vexation with the Russian leader.
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Trump's secondary tariffs would enforce levies connected the countries and entities that bargain Russia's exports.
They could instrumentality an particularly dense toll connected countries that trust connected Russian fossil fuels arsenic portion of their vigor plan, similar China, India, Brazil and Turkiye.
This is not the archetypal clip that Trump has threatened to enforce "secondary tariffs" connected Russia implicit its ongoing warfare with Ukraine.
It's besides not the archetypal clip that Trump has issued specified a informing against an adversary.
Trump successful March said that countries that bargain lipid and state from Venezuela volition look a 25% levy, and successful May helium threatened to enforce akin levies connected countries that import Iranian oil.
The "secondary tariffs" connected Venezuela person squeezed China peculiarly hard arsenic the largest importer of Venezuela oil.
But Trump's Monday comments escalate his menace against Russia with a deadline successful September.
In March, Trump said that, "If Russia and I are incapable to marque a woody connected stopping the bloodshed successful Ukraine... and if I deliberation it was Russia's fault, I americium going to enactment secondary tariffs connected oil, connected each lipid coming retired of Russia."
It was unclear Monday what products would beryllium impacted by Trump's latest secondary tariff threat.
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