Trump tariffs live updates: Trump says US and China are discussing a deal

Asked about the exemptions from tariffs on some electronics that were announced over the weekend, President Donald Trump said he can be flexible but didn't offer any specifics.

"Look, I'm a very flexible person. I don't change my mind, but I'm flexible, and you have to be. You just can't have a wall, and you'll only go, you know, sometimes you have to go around it under it or above it," he said. "There'll be maybe things coming up. I speak to [Apple CEO] Tim Cook. I helped Tim Cook recently, and that whole business. I'm not --I don't want to hurt anybody."

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced late Friday night that smartphones, computers, chips and other electronics would be exempted from Trump's reciprocal tariffs.
But Trump and his economic advisers stressed over the weekend that any reprieve would be temporary, with specific tariffs to be imposed on goods put under a new national security classification.

President Donald Trump said he’ll impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals, but he wouldn’t say at what rate or when those would be implemented.

The president compared potential tariffs on pharmaceuticals to those he had imposed on other products.

“That's going to be like we have on cars. We have us, you know, a 25% tariff on cars, we have a 25% tariff on steel. And aluminum,” he said on Monday while meeting with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

Asked for a percentage or a timeline, Trump responded, “I have a timeline, yeah -- not too distant future.”

As President Donald Trump said exemptions placed on smartphones, computers and other electronics will be temporary, his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, doubled down to ABC News' Rachel Scott that everything will be covered.

When asked if there will be any exemptions on any electronics, Hassett said "what we're talking about is coverage. And so what's going to be covered? And pretty much everything's going to be covered. The question is, which law applies."

Hassett also claimed the Trump admin is close to finalizing a trade deal with more than 10 countries.

“I think that we've got more than 10 deals where there's very, very good, amazing offers made to the US that USTR Trade Representative Jameson Greer and Howard Lutnick and the rest of our trade team and the President are stewing over whether those deals are good enough," Hassett said Monday.

As the Trump administration is set to make an announcement soon, it is now weighing if it will announce the deals in a bundle or individually by country.

“The President will decide when he's satisfied with the deal and when he wants to announce it, and how many all at once. But I can tell you, the progress has been astonishing," Hassett said.

--ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

President Donald Trump, aboard Air Force One on Sunday night en route back to Washington, D.C., after a weekend in Florida, said there "shouldn't be ambiguity" amid his administration's repeated about-faces on tariffs.

He said semiconductor tariffs “will be in place in the not distant future” and that he would announce at what rate “over the next week.”

The president said on Saturday he would announce specifics on Monday.

Trump, when asked if he would declare tariffs on iPhones and tablets, said, "That’s going to be announced very soon" but that the administration is going to with companies about it because “you have to show a certain flexibility.”

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow