Indonesia on Wednesday said that it had reached a trade deal with the United States after an “extraordinary struggle” in negotiations that resulted in a reduction of proposed US tariff rates on the Southeast Asian country’s exports to 19 percent from 32 percent.

Donald Trump said the US had reached a trade deal with Indonesia that would result in goods from the south-east Asian nation to the US being hit with a 19 per cent tariff and Jakarta buying American energy and Boeing jets.

In his initial announcement of the deal on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump said Indonesia had agreed to buy $15bn of US energy exports, $4.5bn of US agricultural products, and 50 Boeing jets. Trump said later on Tuesday that the US exporters would have “full access to everything” and pay no tariffs.