GENEVA (Reuters) -The United States’ general tariff of 39% on imports from Switzerland could be cut to 15% from early December, Swiss Economy Minister Guy Parmelin told the broadcaster SRF in an interview aired on Saturday.

“In Switzerland, we are ready. It takes a bit more time for the USA. I hope everything is fine by early December, but we are pushing,” Guy Parmelin told SRF.

Parmelin had told Tuesday’s edition of the Aargauer Zeitung newspaper that the government expected it to take 10 to 12 working days for the lower tariffs to enter the system, but declined to give a precise date.

On November 14, Switzerland and the U.S. reached a preliminary agreement to cut the tariffs to 15%, more than three months after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 39% rate, the highest on any country

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