The pause on the biggest of Trump's tariffs won't pass this week, as planned, but the problems they present still loom large.

Two days before that deadline, and with nary a formal trade deal in hand, Trump signed an executive order delaying those tariffs again, this time to Aug. 1. But he also sent lette

President Donald Trump cranked up the pressure Monday on America’s trading partners, firing off letters to heads of several countries, informing them of their new tariff rate. But at the same time, Trump took some of the edge off by signing an executive action Monday to extend the date for all “reciprocal” tariffs,

"Any measure to unilaterally raise tariffs will be responded to in accordance with Brazil's Economic Reciprocity Law," Lula's office said in a statement. (Reporting by Ricardo Brito; Writing by Isabel Teles;