WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump plans to inform trading partners of unilateral US tariff rates in the coming weeks, as a July deadline approaches for steeper levies to kick in on dozens of economies.

`We`re going to be sending letters out in about a week and a half, two weeks, to countries telling them what the deal is,Trump told reporters late Wednesday, at the Kennedy Centre in Washington where he was attending a theatre performance.

In April, Trump imposed a blanket 10 percent tariff on most US trading partners and unveiled higher individual rates on dozens of economies including India and the EU although he swiftly paused the elevated rates.AFP