Switzerland's president jets to the U.S. to offer Trump a ‘more attractive tariff offer’

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The Swiss president heads to the U.S. in a bid to make a better counteroffer to Trump’s 39% tariff. An angry Trump allegedly set the new rate “randomly” after a heated 20-minute phone call. He accused the Swiss president of failing to offer anything to balance the $40B trade deficit between the U.S. and Switzerland. Keller-Sutter said Trump’s notion that Switzerland was “stealing” from the U.S. was “absurd.” She said the decision to hit her country with a tariff rate that was “commensurate with ...