When he completed his first 100 days in office in late April, President Donald Trump said he had completed trade deals with 200 countries. More than two months later, Trump has announced just three of those agreements – with China, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. Trump has now extended the deadline for negotiations to August 1, leaving the global trading system pretty much where it stood three months ago — in a state of limbo as businesses delay decisions on investments, contracts and hiring because they don’t know what the rules will be. n18oc_world n18oc_crux