The U.S. government will punish Russia with tariffs if there is not a deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office Monday. 

“We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days,” he said. He said they would be secondary tariffs at 100 percent. The secondary tariffs would place monetary sanctions on countries that trade with Russia. 

The president made the announcement during a meeting with Mark Rutte, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Rutte has been coordinating European efforts to send more weapons to Ukraine to defend itself against Russian invasion. Under the arrangement, NATO would buy American weapons and pass them on to Kyiv. 

The promised 100 percent tariffs differ from a new bipartisan sanctions package in the Senate that targets Russia. The legislation, backed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal, calls for a 500 percent tariff on goods imported from countries that continue to buy oil, gas, uranium, and other exports from Russia.

Trump said this is Biden’s war, not his. He said he is very unhappy with Russia and wants to end the war.

“I felt we had a deal about four times,″ Trump said about an agreement with Putin. “But it just kept going on and on.”