Trump did not provide any timing on when Alexander is expected to be released.
The White House said on Sunday that it reached a trade deal with China as the two countries negotiated for a second day in Switzerland. China has yet to comment on Sunday's talks.
"We’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters in Geneva. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said "substantial progress" had been made but stopped short of touting a full deal.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom -- the first in what the White House said it hopes will be a flurry of agreements while the reciprocal tariff pause is in effect. With UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone in the Oval Office, the leaders conceded that they are still working out the details of the agreement.
Lutnick said one of the major aspects of the trade deal agreement involves automobile imports.
The U.K. will be allowed to export 100,000 cars to the U.S. and just pay the baseline 10% tariff.
"That protects their car industry and remember, we do 16 million cars a year. This is only .6%," he said.
Lutnick provided more details on the trade deal with the U.K. and said the U.S. will open up more market access.
"Ethanol, beef, machinery, all the agricultural products, they have agreed to open their markets and that will add $5 billion of opportunity to American export," he claimed.
Lutnick did say that the 10% baseline tariff will remain on the U.K.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was not at the Oval Office for the trade deal announcement but joined it via a speaker phone.
Starmer did not provide any more details, which he said they needed to hammer out, but praised Trump for their countries' partnership.
"I think it is a real tribute to the history that we have of working so closely together," he said.
"We finalized it and built an incredible platform for the future," the prime minister added.
Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom, but was scant on details.
"Both countries agreed the economic security is national security and we'll work together as allies to insure that we have a strong industrial base, appropriate export controls and protections for key technologies and industries like steel," he said.
