Dry of the treasure. Scott Bessent weighed United States fare negotiations with other countries during an appearance on Monday afternoon in “Kudlow”.

President Donald Trump Last week he unveiled the new rates to the goods imported from foreign countries, including an initial tax of 10% and the reciprocal individual rates higher than certain nations.

Bessent told the host to Larry Kudlow that Trump is “better than anyone in giving -the maximum leverage, so what he has done is that we exposed the rates on April 2 and then we gave the countries several days to think -there.”

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“As I advised in many shows on April 2, I suggested that foreign officials stay cool, do not climb and come to us with your offers on how to drop the rates, how to drop the non -tariff barriers, as you will leave the coin manipulation, such as stopping the subsidized financing and, at a point, the President Trump will be Trump. ready to negotiate“” He explained.

Dry of the treasure. Scott Bessent weighed United States fare negotiations with other countries. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images / Getty Images)

Trump reported before he had talked to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Bessent’s commercial representative and the United States, Jameson Greer, has been used to direct fare negotiations with the country.

Bessent said that Trump “would also be directly involved in these negotiations.”

The secretary of the Treasury said he had not seen any specific offer of Japan, but told Kudlow that “50, 60, perhaps almost 70 countries” have contacted the Trump administration who wants to negotiate.

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“So it will be a busy April, maybe in June,” Bessent said.

He told Kudlow that he hoped that Japan would obtain “priority” with negotiations “only because they presented themselves very quickly.” Also pointed to the important military and economic ties Between America and Japan.

During his appearance, Bessent defended the Trump administration through commercial deficits in his calculation to determine reciprocal rates to imports from some foreign countries. He also said that “academic studies have shown that they are trade barriers that are not tariffs that are the real problem in the United States with free access to these markets.”

Bessent defended the Trump administration through commercial deficits in its calculation to determine reciprocal rates to imports from some foreign countries. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / Getty Images)

Kudlow also asked the Treasury Secretary if a commercial agreement could be made with Japan in the coming weeks.

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“ I will reiterate what I saw last week for countries that were not retaliation. We are at a maximum level of rate and it is my hope that, through good negotiations, all that we will do is that the levels will be reduced. But this will depend on other countries.And you know that President Trump will be involved personally in these negotiations and believes that many of us have been doing it, that there has been a gambling field, that there has been a good way.