The U.S.’s closest security allies in Asia, along with six Southeast Asian countries, have been given another three weeks to negotiate trade deals — or face higher tariffs.

Asia stock markets mostly advance on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump announced new tariff rates on 14 countries, removing some uncertainty in the market.  He also signed an executive order extending the reciprocal tariff deadline to August 1 from July 9,

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.