Donald Trump considering making British exports exempt from tariffs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/08/donald-trump-considering-british-exports-exempt-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1731141802-1
by JimJonesdrinkkoolaid
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Probably at the cost of making us slacken our regulations on their imports
Hope you like chlorinated chicken
Any chance you can take Boris Johnson, Farage and the neocon Tories with no tariffs too?
Let us get on with trying to fix out own mess.
Good Trump.
Do we count in Northern Ireland as being exempt if this were to happen?
Trump saying he might do something is just about completely meaningless
Farage the slimy toad is good for something then. Though I expect we’ll have to give up a lot to get these terms.
I really hope Labour doesn’t go out of there way to buddy up with trump when it makes far more sense for us to strengthen our ties with Europe. No doubt trump will go after the EU and punish us if we don’t side with him.
Wouldn’t WTO rules forbid the USA from making such exemptions for a developed country?
Holy hell people, you have to ask yourself whose side you are on.
If you are actually on Britain’s side this is great news, for purely selfish reasons, regardless of whether it’s good for the world or not.
I don’t like Trump. I’d much prefer Kamala had won, but if there is to be a trade war (which there honestly shouldn’t be) why shouldn’t we try and profit.
If we can be the conduit of trade for European and US trade, the better for us!
It’s just like how India, quite selfishly tbh, is basically the conduit for Russian oil and European markets.
Is it moral? No. But geo-politics and economics is not about morality. It’s a massive prisoner’s dilemma where most every country is essentially ratting on each other, even when we all know the optimal solution to the dilemma is for everyone to keep quiet.
If we are to succeed, we have to play a bit dirty, that’s the way the world is heading, and we are in no great position to change things, even from our relative position of power and influence.
We have to think on our own self-interest, because that’s what every country is doing. And if we can persuade a Trump admin from exempting is from tariffs (and better yet, gain a trade deal, which was impossible under Biden due to his distaste for us due to his half Irish heritage taking precedent over his half English one) we can leverage our EU trade deal and force cross-atlantic trade to go through us, which could be very lucrative.
And what’s more we can leverage our relative defence strength as NATO’s second in line protector (France has always been a bit queasy with NATO, and as Germany is finding out, obstinate in forcing any defence agreements with manufacturing in France rather than a proportional spread) and Europe’s need to create its own strategic autonomy with regards to defence.
Trump is bad for the world, bad for the West and bad for Britain in general, but in every crisis, there is opportunity to be had if we are clever and smart enough to take it. Chaos is a ladder after all.
EDIT: people are saying he won’t do it for free. It’s true, he will extract a pound of flesh for sure, but that needs to be weighed, not only against the limitations and our personal distaste for giving it, but also against the wider geo-poltical and economic benefits of receiving such exemptions
Tbh I doubt he personally will be the one considering it, it’ll be his administration and the people within it, because this is some complex 4D chess stuff here, which I doubt he personally has the capacity for. We can give a few of our carrots, if we can bag a few eggs in return.
Maybe the orange man may actually be able to push through a free trade deal like he hinted at before. That would be a boon for both the US and UK
Why people even read or trust a manipulative tabloid like the Telegraph?
So.. I presume we will have a choice over whether we eat this American produce?… Nobody would force us to eat it, and what’s more, the vast majority of the British public just wouldn’t buy it. It’s a non issue, everyone keeps losing their minds over better trade relationships with the US but we have a choice…
High fructose corn syrup all the way then.
It obviously comes with a catch, we’ll have to give something up, probably our high food standards which prohibit a lot of American slop.
Donald Trump backpedaling?
Naw that doesn’t sound like him at all.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if these tariffs never materialise at all.
He’s a notorious, professional liar and useless businessman. I’d be more surprised if he executed a plan.
A sigh of relief, although I’m worried what the orange one is going to ask from us in return… 😥
Putin wants to further divide the UK and the EU, and Trump is happy to ~~do his bidding~~ take his advice.
Utterly baffles me that people think Donald Trump has EVER done ANYTHING for anyone if there wasn’t something in it for him.
LOL at people banging on about chlorinated chicken whilst buying meat from supermarkets pumped full of water to bulk them up.
If it means giving him and his corrupt cronies free reign, then no. He’s too deceitful and far too impulsive to take his word on in, or a trade deal with his signature.
Blah blah blah… Fuck me what’s the point of these articles
Sure there’s some on here that will find a negative with this. 🥱
I’m sure David Lammy can convince him to apply double tariffs.
Daddy Putin told Donald not to let the UK get close to the EU again.
Did Trump actually do half the stuff he said last time he was president? ….he’s just a complete sound bite PR bull sh*t artist.
Is the wall finished?
Please don’t. The absolute last thing I want is for the UK to get closer to the US.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he brought them in before the next election as a push to the right wing
He probably thinks Farage is the ‘real prime minister of England’ or something, and this is what he’s given him as a Christmas present for his lackyism.
Well that’s completely against how the WTO works on a fundamental level (Most Favoured Nation clause)
Better not stick tariffs on tea!
*Sips my tea & salutes the flag*
Everything Trump does is transactional, so he’ll be looking for his cut.
It wouldn’t surprise me too much if the UK got exceptions, Trump is a fan of the UK and he’d rate the UK over many other western countries
‘Could’, ‘might’, ‘reported’, ‘considering’, ‘sources’ all doing some very heavy lifting in a Daily Telegraph article.
In return, unfettered access to privatising the NHS.
Fuck off, you tangerine imbecile
… provided Britain does what?
As we saw before Trump never gives anything without getting something in return.
He doesn’t like the bureaucratic monolith the EU has become, if the British political establishment class, can avoid sneering at him & insulting him, this could be good for the UK.
Remembering despite unwavering support for the Biden administration, he refused the UK a FTA
Please don’t let Labour go buddy buddy with Trump. I’d rather we had nothing to do with that fascist scumbag.
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