Trump says oil and gas tariffs will come around Feb 18
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House · Reuters

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he expects his administration to impose tariffs related to oil and gas around Feb. 18.

He did not name a specific country to which the tariffs would apply or specify any more details about the plans.

"We're going to put tariffs on oil and gas," Trump told reporters in the White House's Oval Office. "That'll happen fairly soon, I think around the 18th of February."

(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; additional reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; editing by Chris Reese)