The president’s tariff announcements suggest he has not backed away from his initial strategy, where even minor trading partners will face tariffs.

President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller U.S. trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. None of the countries targeted in the first batch of letters — the Philippines,

President Trump is alerting countries around the world of impending tariff rates that they will face when sending goods to the United States, hitting prominent trading partners and poorer nations