President Trump exempted foods like beef, coffee and bananas from his sweeping country-by-country tariffs on Friday, as his administration grapples with cost-of-living frustrations and quickly rising prices for some types of food .

The new exemption covers a range of tropical products that are often imported to the United States, including coffee, tea, bananas, mangoes, avocados, coconuts, pineapples, cocoa and spices such as nutmeg, according to an executive order . It also covers beef, oranges and tomatoes.

The White House said Mr. Trump decided to exempt the products on Friday because he's made "substantial progress" in negotiating trade deals with other countries. A day earlier, Mr. Trump announced trade frameworks with four Latin American countries — Argentina, Guatemal

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