U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 14, 2025.
Nathan Howard | Reuters
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose “secondary tariffs” on Russia’s trade partners “at about 100%” if President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a deal to end his invasion of Ukraine in 50 days.
“We’re very, very unhappy with them, and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs, if you don’t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100%, they call them secondary tariffs,” Trump said from the White House while meeting with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte.
He said that he is “disappointed” with Putin, because he thought they would have had a deal months ago.
“So based on that, we’re going to be doing secondary tariffs,” Trump continued.
Secondary tariffs would impose levies on the countries and entities that buy Russia’s exports.
They could take an especially heavy toll on countries that rely on Russian fossil fuels as part of their energy plan, like China, India, Brazil and Turkiye.
This is not the first time that Trump has threatened to impose “secondary tariffs” on Russia over its ongoing war with Ukraine.
But his Monday remarks escalate the threat with a deadline in September, and underscore his increasing frustration with the Russian leader.
In March, Trump said that, “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine… and if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.”
It was unclear Monday what products would be impacted by Trump’s latest secondary tariff threat.
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