{"id":351511,"date":"2018-03-09T22:17:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-may-exempt-more-countries-from-tariffs-mnuchin\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T22:17:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:17:57","slug":"presstv-trump-may-exempt-more-countries-from-tariffs-mnuchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-may-exempt-more-countries-from-tariffs-mnuchin\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump may exempt more countries from tariffs: Mnuchin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says that it is likely that President Donald Trump would exempt more countries from trade tariffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president can do exemptions and my expectation is there may be some other countries that he considers in the next two weeks,&#8221; Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Defying his own party and delivering on a campaign promise to fight unfair practices by America\u2019s trading partners, Trump signed paperwork enacting tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin added that exemptions for specific products would be decided by US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who &#8220;will be publishing regulations very quickly on how those products could be exempt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin also commented on\u00a0the recent developments over Trump\u2019s decision to meet with Korean President Kim Jong-un for talks about nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president is determined that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/09\/554910\/Mnuchin-says-Trump-may-exempt-more-countries-from-tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says that it is likely that President Donald Trump would exempt more countries from trade tariffs. &#8220;The president can do exemptions and my expectation is there may be some other countries that he considers in the next two weeks,&#8221; Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC on Friday. Defying his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}