Trump Tariff Letters: See the Latest Rates and Countries Affected

President Trump has informed at least 22 nations that their exports will face tariffs of up to 50 percent starting in August unless they can broker new trade deals imminently with the United States.

The steep levies, communicated this week in letters to those nations’ leaders and posted on social media, marked a revival of Mr. Trump’s trade brinkmanship. His latest missive on Wednesday threatened to impose a 50 percent tariff on goods arriving from Brazil, in part, he said, because of how the country has treated its former president.

The new threatened tariffs would essentially replace the original set of steep duties that the president announced for a long slate of countries in April, but quickly suspended until early July, as his administration looked to broker favorable trade agreements around the globe.

But the White House made minimal progress on what an official once described as a campaign to strike “90 deals in 90 days,” the deadline for which lapsed on Wednesday. That prompted Mr. Trump this week to sign a new executive order that extended his original pause to Aug. 1.

Now dozens of countries once again face the prospect that tariffs on their exports to the United States could rise considerably next month, though Mr. Trump has only informed 22 nations about the specific taxes soon to be imposed on their arriving goods. Many experts say that the true cost of those levies will fall hardest on U.S. businesses and consumers purchasing foreign products.

The president’s initial battery of letters went to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Laos, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tunisia and Thailand. By Wednesday, Mr. Trump had expanded that roster to include the Philippines, Brunei, Iraq and other countries.

For Brazil, Mr. Trump coupled his usual demands with a series of attacks on the country’s authorities, accusing them of engaging in a “Witch Hunt” against his political ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is facing trial on charges of attempting a coup.

Mr. Trump also threatened to raise rates even higher if any of the countries sought to retaliate with import taxes of their own or tried to evade the U.S. duties by shipping through other nations.