White House near general trade agreements with Japan and India, Politico says

The White House is closing in on general agreements with Japan and India to stave off U.S. tariffs, but they are likely to leave many of the details to be hashed out at a later date, Megan Messerly, Ari Hawkins and Daniel Desrochers of Politico report. In the absence of full trade deals, administration officials are working to secure what three people close to the White House described as “memorandums of understanding” or a broad “architecture” for future deals, the website says. It “may take months for final deals,” said one of the people.