Catenaa, Thursday, July 23, 2026- US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will make an announcement later Thursday about Trump’s tariff plans, as the 10% baseline levy is set to expire.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a briefing that Greer “will be having an announcement on that very soon, later today.”
“I don’t want to get ahead of him, so I would just tell you to stay tuned for more details,” she added.
“We expect to see some action soon,” Greer said on CNBC in response to a question about whether additional tariffs were on the horizon.
Greer said he could not specify a timeline, citing obligations to brief Congress and other stakeholders before making any formal announcement. “But we do expect action soon,” he added.
President Donald Trump enacted an across-the-board 10% levy after the US Supreme Court struck down earlier global tariffs he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The new baseline levies, under Section 122 of the Trade Act, are only a temporary solution, however, and cannot be imposed for longer than 150 days. They are due to expire on Friday.
The Trump administration has already been working to replace that authority. USTR put forward a new round of duties in early June, proposing rates as high as 12.5% on goods from 60 economies, with the action grounded in Section 301 authority and justified by claims of widespread forced-labor practices abroad. Greer said those proposed duties would cover “about 99% of our trade.”
“The US has laws to prohibit trading goods with forced labor,” Greer said. “Other countries, most don’t have a law. Those that do don’t really enforce it.”
One investigation focused on forced-labor practices in dozens of economies, and the administration is poised to impose fresh levies on that front by Friday, Bloomberg News reported.
Doing so would allow the White House to avoid any gap between the expiring temporary levies and the new ones.
Greer has said another inquiry targeting industrial overcapacity will take more time to be resolved.
