US President Donald Trump said Friday that representatives from Pakistan will visit the United States next week as the South Asian country seeks to negotiate a trade deal.
Pakistan is facing the prospect of a 29 percent tariff on its exports to the US due to a $3 billion trade surplus, under tariffs Washington announced last month on multiple countries.
Trump said he had no interest in making a deal with either Pakistan or its neighbor India if the two were to engage in conflict. The nuclear-armed rivals exchanged fighter jets, missiles, drones, and artillery in four days of clashes this month — their worst fighting in decades.
“As you know, we’re very close [to] making a deal with India,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews after departing Air Force One.
