ABU DHABI — On Friday, President Trump said that the White House will soon let dozens of countries know how much they will have to pay in unilateral tariffs on US exports. He warned that talks are taking too long to make individual deals with each country that will be affected by the duty system.

“Right now, 150 countries want to make a deal, but you can’t see that many,” Trump said at a business meeting in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

I think that sometime in the next two to three weeks, [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent and [Commerce Secretary] Howard Lutnick will send letters to people telling them what they’ll have to pay to do business in the United States. They will be very fair in what they say.

Trump, who is 78 years old, first announced a set of tariffs on dozens of countries on April 2. He said he was punishing them in proportion to the taxes they put on US goods.

Then, on April 9, he put a hold on the tariffs for 90 days to give trade talks time. He left a base rate of 10% in place for all countries except China.

Since then, the White House has made some tentative deals with the UK and China. With the UK, the 10% duty stayed in place, and American goods could now be sold in Britain’s agricultural market. With China, the US lowered its rate on Beijing to 30%, and China lowered its rate on American goods to 10%.

The UK deal also exempts 100,000 cars made in Britain from Trump’s new 25% global auto tax. Instead, they will be subject to the 10% rate. The deal also gets rid of tariffs on UK aeroplane parts, such as Rolls-Royce engines.

The 12th of May, Trump said that his friendship with China is “very, very good.

At the time, Trump told reporters, “I’ll talk with President Xi [Jinping] maybe at the end of the week.” He also said, “To me, the biggest thing that came out of that meeting is that they agreed to open up China. Now we have to get it written down.”

The Asian power will keep the 25% tax on cars, steel, and aluminium in place.

Earlier this month, trade advisor Peter Navarro told reporters that US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer had meetings with other countries to talk about trade planned all the way through July. This suggested that more deals were on the way.

The 10% deal with the UK was called a “template” for future deals by the White House. They also said that other countries’ rates probably won’t go below that level.

Lutznick told CNN’s “State of the Union” on May 11 that the 10% rate would stay in place for the “foreseeable future.