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Karin Keller-Sutter will be received by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting is scheduled for 4:15pm Swiss time (10:15am local time), according to the US State Department on its website and is not open to the press. Keller-Sutter and Economics Minister Guy Parmelin arrived in Washington on Tuesday evening to try to reach an agreement on tariffs. Donald Trump has set them at 39% for Swiss goods. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox No Swiss delegation arrived at the White House yesterday evening, sources in Washington told Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA. According to a White House official quoted by AFP, no meeting with Donald Trump is planned "for the time being". Earlier, Trump told CNBC that Keller-Sutter had requested a tariff of 1% on Swiss goods. Adapted from French by DeepL/ac How we work We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them ... Full story here Are you the author?
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