Trade deals and tariff deadline looms large
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
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Nations the world over have until Wednesday to strike trade agreements with the U.S., or face the return of astronomically high tariffs that were announced — and later paused — in April. But the White House has signaled some wiggle room, saying tariffs might not actually come back until August 1, should countries not make a deal. Plus, in the final installment of our "Buy Now, Pay Later" series, we look into why more people 65 and older are finding themselves in bankruptcy court.
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. Wednesday is the deadline for trade deals and tariffs, but maybe not. |
| 1:04.2 | For Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshire in for David Brancaccio. Nations the world over have until |
| 1:09.2 | Wednesday to agree to trade deals with the U.S. |
| 1:11.7 | or face the return of astronomically high tariffs announced in April and then paused. |
| 1:16.8 | But the White House has signaled some wiggle room saying tariffs might not actually come back |
| 1:21.6 | until August 1st. Julia Coronado is founder and president of macro policy perspectives |
| 1:26.9 | and a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and joins us to talk more about it. Hi, Julia. |
| 1:32.2 | Good morning. Where do you think we're going to land, you know, in terms of the deals we get and the actual tariff rates we get? |
| 1:39.7 | Well, let's remember that we have been living with a universal 10% tariff and higher tariffs on China already. |
| 1:47.5 | So that seems to be the floor. |
| 1:49.5 | It implies a tariff on U.S. imports on average of close to 15%. |
| 1:55.4 | And that's not nothing. |
| 1:56.4 | We are collecting tariff revenue worth roughly $300 billion a year at an annual rate already. |
| 2:05.1 | So if we go higher from here, that means that tax on U.S. firms and consumers will go higher. |
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