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Friday, June 27, 2025

Lacking specifics -- trade treaties with China / India -- deferred July 8, 2025 date deadline now Labor Day (Sept. 1 is 65 days away)

NPR reports that Commerce Secy.

Howard Lutnick is praising the nations

of China and India for signing on

trade "deals" with the U.S. as of

Thursday 26 June 2025.  Neither

Trump nor Lutnick provide any agreements

on the "deals" to Bloomberg News

about what was signed in the final week

of June 2025.  In a statement from China's

commerce ministry, details about a needed

access to rare earths and minerals for

U.S. manufacturing were omitted / nil / nada.

npr.org/2025/06/227/nx-s1-5448577/trade-trump-us-china-trade-rare-earths

[China has also taken steps on two more precursor chemicals

in the making of fentanyl]

Trump continues to talk about how many nations

are signing the "deals" without giving any specifics nor

stating at what date formal agreements will have a joint

leader-to-leader in-person ceremony.

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