The U.S.’s closest security allies in Asia, along with six Southeast Asian countries, have been given another three weeks to negotiate trade deals — or face higher tariffs.

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.

SEOUL: South Korea's Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo said exemptions or reductions in auto and steel tariffs must be included in a trade deal with the US in a meeting with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick,