President Donald Trump and his advisers said this was the plan all along: Scare the bejesus out of the world by announcing astronomically high tariffs, get countries to come to the negotiating table,

The urgency stems from Trump’s tariffs announcement on April 2; EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic will be among the first foreign officials to arrive in the US on Monday for emergency trade talks.

India can reach a provisional trade agreement with the Donald Trump administration in 90 days if the offers are mutually beneficial, according to a senior official, boosting hopes that the South Asian nation can emerge relatively unscathed from Washington’s tariff strategy.