Trump government officials are negotiating trade agreements with specific allies, leaving most countries affected by his duties in the dark about what the president wants.

The government is launching a scary talk sprint with more than 70 countries in 90 days, with the Stock Exchange going up and down due to the great uncertainty that exists and the strong concerns that Trump’s policies will lead to recession rather than the development of the American economy.

Trump has launched conversations with very few countries at present Vietnam, India, South Korea and Japan Giving priority to strategic trade partners to deal with China, according to Politico, two people close to the White House and who wanted to maintain anonymity, a strategy that was confirmed by a White House official.

This means that most countries have been stuck, awaiting the attention of the world’s largest economy – and all by paying the highest export rate in the US for almost a century. Trump “frozen” some of his highest duties earlier this week, while at the same time on Saturday, you exclude some electronic items imported to the United States such as smartphones, computer screens and various electronic components.

Politico’s survey in More than 15 countriesincluding five main commercial partners in Asia, confused the government’s approach.

“We don’t really know what the Trump government wants,” he said a diplomat from an Asian country, which is close to the negotiations.

“We are not told literally anything »said another official representing an Asian country.

Early focusing on Asian countries with ties with China reflects the government’s goal of limiting, as he says, large -scale illegal missions, rinseing substantially Chinese products through third countries, including Vietnam and Cambodia.

Diplomats at the embassies of two main commercial partners in Asia have said that their staff helps to connect between the White House and commercial officials from the countries where they come from.

“I would say that my colleagues are trying to lay the groundwork” for conversations, “said one of these diplomats.

Government’s approach creates uncertainty As to whether he will be able to conclude an agreement with each country until the deadline imposed by Trump himself on when the so -called mutual duties will be reinstated. This allows a wide range of countries to face a 10% duty that is likely to slow down the global economy and pushing nations dependent on exports to the US, even if they want to make a deal.

The US has pointed out that Israel’s decision to eliminate its duties on US goods was not enough for a timely agreement – even after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met directly with Trump. And the European Union’s public proposal to abolish all duties in cars and industrial goods between the US and the EU has been rejected.

The government’s strategy essentially stifles the country’s top trade partners. Collectively, the EU, China, Canada and Mexico represent more than 3.1 trillion. dollars in total trade with US

“Every country knocks on the White House door right away, so it’s not strange that it doesn’t meet everyone. But what did they expect with world duties? It is chaos, “said an EU diplomat. European leaders now dispute whether” this is a tactic of concluding agreements or the beginning of a comprehensive change in the way the US will see world trade. And that has scared us quite a bit, “he said

Asian diplomats awaiting on the sidelines have confused about the government’s commercial policy and the difficulties in trying to participate in productive discussions, given the sudden reversal of the size of the original duties on the day of liberalization on Wednesday.

“It will be needed more than the abolition of duties,” said Ken Weinstein, president at the Japan’s Hudson Institute and a former US ambassador to Japan during the first Trump government.

Another Asian diplomat said that his nation wanted to talk to the Trump team about an agreement, but that he was not expecting to be on the list because he was not as big a commercial partner as others.

However, many countries are making limited progress towards definitive resignation from duties.

An Indian diplomat recognized disagreements in the almost daily conversations between officials at the lower level than both countries and said they were “confident that gaps can be bridged” before the duties were re -entered into force.

The Vietnam It celebrated the launch of official talks to deal with mutual duties with a post on the government’s website on Thursday. However, although the two countries are working within the 90 -day cessation, “the two countries must soon negotiate a bilateral trade agreement to create a long -term framework,” the post said.

OR Japan He has marked that he is willing to negotiate non -tariff barriers. Japan is set to send the Minister of Finance to Acasua Rosei to Washington for immediate conversations and is expected to discuss “non -tariff barriers and exchange rates”.

However, any attempt to eliminate non -tariff barriers would make the negotiations much more difficult, according to commerce experts.

Smaller countries with less developed economies have less room for maneuvering when it comes to negotiations to remove both the mutual and the fixed duty of 10% of Trump in all imports and it is not realistic for them in the short term to effectively address Trump’s problems.

An African diplomat said that his government had simply decided to “throw the tones” because it was not as harshly affected by the original duties as some other nations.

A Latin American diplomat said their country has made multiple requests for meetings with senior Trump officials to the Ministries of Commerce and Finance, but has not received a response.