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Reuters

The United States has made trade deals with Cambodia and Thailand ahead of President Donald Trump’s August 1 tariff deadline, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Wednesday.
Lutnick, who made the comments during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, provided no further details.
“It’s unbelievable. And because he [Trump] uses trade, he gets to invite me on the phone, and I listened all day Saturday while he’s calling Cambodia, Thailand,” he said.
“And what happens on Monday? They announce a truce. And here we did today. We made trade deals with Cambodia and Thailand.”
The White House and Commerce Department did not immediately respond to requests for further details.


Thailand’s finance minister, however, said Bangkok was still working “a little bit more” on trade details.
Asked whether the US had reached an agreement with Thailand, Pichai Chunhavajira said on Thursday: “Don’t make me say anything just yet. There’s just a little bit more that I need to get back [to the US].”
Trump had used trade talks as a cudgel to bring both nations to the negotiating table, threatening that Washington would not reach trade deals with either as long as the fighting continued. After the peace deal was inked, Trump called leaders in both countries and told his trade team to restart talks with both nations.
“Numerous people were killed and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from certain standpoints. They’ve been fighting for 500 years intermittently. And, we solved that war … we solved it through trade,” Trump told reporters on Monday.

On Monday, Thailand and Cambodia agreed to a truce after five days of clashes that killed at least 43 people on both sides, as a long-standing dispute over contested border temples boiled over into fighting on their 800km (500-mile) boundary.
That ceasefire is still holding despite both countries accusing each other of breaching the deal on Wednesday.
Thailand’s foreign ministry said its troops in Sisaket province “came under attack by small arms fire and grenade assaults launched by Cambodian forces” in an offensive that continued until Wednesday morning. “This represents a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement,” said a foreign ministry statement.
Thai government spokesman Jirayu Huangsab also reported overnight clashes but said “the Thai side maintained control of the situation” and conditions along the border were “reported to be normal” from 8am.

A Cambodian defence ministry official accused Thailand of twice breaching the ceasefire on Wednesday.
Khuon Sudary, president of the National Assembly of Cambodia, urged other countries to help ensure the ceasefire was upheld.
“To prevent the breach of the ceasefire, it is urgent to deploy international observers and inspection teams. Please hold accountable those who violate the ceasefire,” she said at the sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva on Wednesday.
UN rights chief Volker Turk urged the neighbouring nations to implement their ceasefire deal in full and take rapid steps to build confidence and peace.
“This crucial agreement must be fully respected, in good faith, by both sides, as diplomatic efforts continue, in a bid to resolve the root causes of the conflict,” Turk said.
Additional reporting by Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse


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The commerce secretary says Trump agreed on deals with both countries to bring about ceasefire


The commerce secretary says Trump agreed on deals with both countries to bring about ceasefire.


US ‘made trade deals’ with Thailand, Cambodia, Lutnick says

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The commerce secretary says Trump agreed on deals with both countries to bring about ceasefire