President Donald Trump is meeting with Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the president of the Philippines, Tuesday morning at the White House to discuss tariffs ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline.
“The Aug. 1 deadline is just the, really the start date for when the United States of America will begin collecting this revenue from all of the countries around the world who the president has sent these letters to,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday.
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The two leaders are expected to speak about trade, tariffs included, and the security partnership between the two nations that was signed in 1951.
The meeting is set to start at 11 a.m. Tuesday.