Agreements: 0
Term Sheets: 1, India
MOUs: now 18, up from 15 (edit)
Active/Open Negotiations: at least 34 this week alone
Letters of Intent: 100+, up from 75 countries (edit)
India didn't waste anytime, Modi and Trump had an MOU back in early Feb for the US - India TRUST initiative
feel free to look it up
Japan was another early adopter and is very deep into negotiations with the US at many different levels.
Their Finance Minister is meeting with Bessent this week as a follow on to last week's meeting with their Economic Revitalization minister.
some countries did not engage the US until the tariffs were publicly announced April 2, so every potential trade agreement is at a different stage
I don't expect light weights like Kevin and his source Eleanor Pringle to understand the process of negotiation towards a trade agreement with all associated amendments, annexes, and attachments, but Java, BigBalls and others here clearly have the experience and wherewithal to understand that Rome isn't built in a day when a complex agreement is the goal
companies, even multinationals, move faster than countries and already $7T is committed to investment in the US, including seven automobile manufacturing plants, a couple of chip plants, etc.
as a point of fact, President Xi is working his side of the fence and just visited personally with Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia in an effort to disrupt their active negotiations with the White House
Almost 2 weeks, how many signed agreements? LMAO.
Let me add China has bought up tons of land in Northwestern Canada and has bought plenty of farmland in the US. You also forgot to mention we have one new Steel Plant going to be built in the US by Hyundai. China is also actively working the EU and Greenland....it's a game of chess and who blinks first..