President Donald Trump’s trade representative, Jamieson Greer, said that Americans should expect the administration’s tariff levels to remain where they are, even as some trading partners look to negotiate deals past a key deadline.

In an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” taped on Aug. 1 but aired on Aug. 3, Greer said he does not expect trading partners that have yet to strike deals with the United States to negotiate tariffs down in the coming days.

“I know a lot of these are set rates pursuant to deals. Some of these deals are announced, some are not, others depend on the level of the trade deficit or surplus we may have with the country,” Greer told CBS.

“There are trade ministers who want to talk more and see how they can work in a different way with the United States, but I think ... we’re seeing truly the contours of the president’s tariff plan right now with these rates.”

After levying baseline and reciprocal tariffs on all U.S. trading partners in early April, Trump offered a 90-day extension for nations to negotiate deals with his administration. After the 90-day window came to pass on July 9, he extended the deadline to Aug. 1.

So far, the White House has negotiated finalized or pending trade agreements with the European Union, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, and Taiwan.

Trump is working on a deal with China after agreeing to a truce in retaliatory actions until Aug. 12. Negotiations on rare earth metals are a critical component of trade talks with Beijing.

Mexico, one of the United States’ largest trading partners, was offered a 90-day extension on trade negotiations but is still subject to the 25 percent fentanyl-related tariff level Trump levied earlier this year until a deal is finalized.

Trump slapped Canada with a higher 35 percent tariff on any goods not governed by the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), as well as a 40 percent tariff on any imports that are transshipped through Canada from other nations to avoid tariffs.

The White House says that Canada is subject to a higher tariff level due to its role in fentanyl trafficking into the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has contended, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, that his nation “accounts for only 1 percent of [United States] fentanyl imports,” adding that Canada “has been working intensively to further reduce these volumes.”

CBS cited previous remarks of Greer’s that Trump’s view is “maybe a tariff is better than a deal” and asked the trade representative if some nations have no shot at avoiding tariffs of some kind.

“I would say that, in fact, most countries in the world, they just have a tariff assigned to them,” Greer said, referring to the 10 or 15 percent baseline tariffs, as well as the higher reciprocal tariffs for other U.S. trading partners.

“We bring [Trump] potential concessions from countries and the things they might want to do. And he compares that to the potential tariff that might be applied to try to get that deficit down. And then talking to his advisors, he makes a call on this. Sometimes a country will come back and make additional concessions that, that make it more appropriate.”

The trade representative said that Trump is “trying to get at the deficit” while reshoring manufacturing in the United States.

“And so those are the factors he’s looking at ... when he’s determining whether he’s just going to have a tariff or he'll take a deal.”

Austin Alonzo contributed to this report.