Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the number of nations asking for new trade agreements with the Trump administration keeps climbing. Bessent told Fox Business on Tuesday that the count was at, “50, 60, maybe almost 70 countries” that have contacted the White House looking for a new deal.

Earlier Tuesday, top U.S. trade official Jamieson Greer told senators during a trade hearing, “Nearly 50 countries have approached me personally to discuss the president’s new policy and explore how to achieve reciprocity.”

These developments follow the round of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on April 2 to counter trade barriers and tariffs imposed by what Trump termed in a post “abusing countries.”

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