All I care is that we don’t get chlorinated chicken, hormone fed beef, and a sell off of the NHS. This deal doesn’t seem to include any of that.
> The prime minister is on a whistle-stop tour in the United States, meeting politicians from both parties, as well as business leaders. But the free trade deal promised in the 2019 Conservative manifesto looks to have been put on ice until at least 2025.
> Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden have agreed a new partnership to bolster economic security in response to the growing threat of China.
> Brushing off his failure to deliver on the Tory manifesto promise to land a full-fat free trade deal with the US, the prime minister and US president announced the Atlantic Declaration during a meeting at the White House.
> It was the first time Mr Sunak had visited the home of the American presidency.
> The agreement includes a narrow trade pact covering critical minerals needed for electric car batteries, closer defence industry cooperation and a new data protection agreement.
> The new accord contains an in-principle agreement for a deal on those minerals – used to make a range of products from solar panels to electric vehicles – to give UK exporters access to the huge $370bn (£294bn) green subsidies programme, the Inflation Reduction Act, introduced by President Biden to turbocharge huge green investment in the US.
> The US signed a similar deal with Japan earlier this year to prohibit the two countries from enacting bilateral export restrictions on the minerals most critical for electric batteries – lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese.
> While the prime minister was quick to talk up the new deal, it is not the post-Brexit free trade deal the Conservative Party promised to deliver by the end of 2022 in its 2019 manifesto – when an agreement with the US was cited as the main trade deal target.
> UK officials insisted this new targeted approach was a better response to the economic challenges posed by Beijing and following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
> However, President Biden has made no secret of his disinterest in negotiating a bilateral trade deal with the UK, with negotiations now in the deep freeze until 2025 at the earliest.
> Asked to acknowledge this government had failed on this election pledge on Thursday, the prime minister said the “macroeconomic situation had evolved” and insisted that the UK-US economic partnership was still strong and reflected new threats.
> “Since [that pledge] we’ve had a pandemic. We’ve had a war in Ukraine and that has changed the macroeconomic situation. And the right response to that is to ensure that we’re focusing our engagement economically on the things that will make the most difference to the British people,” he said. “The real challenges we face are the threats to our economic security. And actually what I’ll be talking to President Biden about today is how can the UK and the US work together to ensure that security for our citizens? I think that’s the thing that we should be focusing on right now.”
> As well as the agreement on critical minerals, President Biden has committed to ask Congress to approve the UK as a “domestic source” under US defence procurement laws, allowing for greater American investment in British firms.
> The two powers will also focus attention on improving the resilience of critical supply chains to shut Russia out of the global civil nuclear market. Allies are also working on semiconductor supply chains.
> A deal on data protection will ease burdens for small firms doing transatlantic trade, potentially saving £92m.
*The new accord contains an in-principle agreement for a deal on those minerals – used to make a range of products from solar panels to electric vehicles – to give UK exporters access to the huge $370bn(£294bn) green subsidies programme, the Inflation Reduction Act,introduced by President Biden to turbocharge huge green investment in the US.*
What absolute bullshit spin by the Murdoch outlet. The deal allows UK companies to *buy* that stuff *from American suppliers*, who are being supported by the IR Act.
This reads like UK companies are going to get billions in American cash. They’re not.
What’s this deal? Georgia peanuts and chlorinated chicken for our National Health Sevice?
Tories have gone full Banzi in the run up to the next election with their desperate fire sale.
The US plays Britain like a fiddle yet again. They never learn that the so-called special relationship is one-sided.
Looks like we give up data protections so the US tech firms can get around GDPR and monetise us even more in exchange for a might ask congress to let BAE bid as a US supplier for arm’s manufacturing etx.
Awesome deal for the billionaires again
And the headline savings for uk businesses a whopping £90 million in cut red tape.
Rashi got short shrift there. ‘Deal’ is a huge exaggeration, it’s a declaration which is just words.
USA: Your not going to get a trade deal, Or anything close to that, however your media can use the phrase new partnership. That should allow you to save something of whatever you call this.
I don’t get it. You have a giant market just nearby. Like a 1 hour commute. Why? Just why
Biden hates the UK. There’ll be no trade deal while he is in the WH and to be honest, that’s good. We do t want low quality chemical filled Yank crap on our shelves and we don’t want a Yank run NHS either (even though parts of it seem to be already).
So sad that the UK government has reduced itself to putting out the begging bowl. This was inevitable after Brexit.
It could also read UK reliance on the US increases on the terms of the latter.
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All I care is that we don’t get chlorinated chicken, hormone fed beef, and a sell off of the NHS. This deal doesn’t seem to include any of that.
> The prime minister is on a whistle-stop tour in the United States, meeting politicians from both parties, as well as business leaders. But the free trade deal promised in the 2019 Conservative manifesto looks to have been put on ice until at least 2025.
> Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden have agreed a new partnership to bolster economic security in response to the growing threat of China.
> Brushing off his failure to deliver on the Tory manifesto promise to land a full-fat free trade deal with the US, the prime minister and US president announced the Atlantic Declaration during a meeting at the White House.
> It was the first time Mr Sunak had visited the home of the American presidency.
> The agreement includes a narrow trade pact covering critical minerals needed for electric car batteries, closer defence industry cooperation and a new data protection agreement.
> The new accord contains an in-principle agreement for a deal on those minerals – used to make a range of products from solar panels to electric vehicles – to give UK exporters access to the huge $370bn (£294bn) green subsidies programme, the Inflation Reduction Act, introduced by President Biden to turbocharge huge green investment in the US.
> The US signed a similar deal with Japan earlier this year to prohibit the two countries from enacting bilateral export restrictions on the minerals most critical for electric batteries – lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese.
> While the prime minister was quick to talk up the new deal, it is not the post-Brexit free trade deal the Conservative Party promised to deliver by the end of 2022 in its 2019 manifesto – when an agreement with the US was cited as the main trade deal target.
> UK officials insisted this new targeted approach was a better response to the economic challenges posed by Beijing and following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
> However, President Biden has made no secret of his disinterest in negotiating a bilateral trade deal with the UK, with negotiations now in the deep freeze until 2025 at the earliest.
> Asked to acknowledge this government had failed on this election pledge on Thursday, the prime minister said the “macroeconomic situation had evolved” and insisted that the UK-US economic partnership was still strong and reflected new threats.
> “Since [that pledge] we’ve had a pandemic. We’ve had a war in Ukraine and that has changed the macroeconomic situation. And the right response to that is to ensure that we’re focusing our engagement economically on the things that will make the most difference to the British people,” he said. “The real challenges we face are the threats to our economic security. And actually what I’ll be talking to President Biden about today is how can the UK and the US work together to ensure that security for our citizens? I think that’s the thing that we should be focusing on right now.”
> As well as the agreement on critical minerals, President Biden has committed to ask Congress to approve the UK as a “domestic source” under US defence procurement laws, allowing for greater American investment in British firms.
> The two powers will also focus attention on improving the resilience of critical supply chains to shut Russia out of the global civil nuclear market. Allies are also working on semiconductor supply chains.
> A deal on data protection will ease burdens for small firms doing transatlantic trade, potentially saving £92m.
*The new accord contains an in-principle agreement for a deal on those minerals – used to make a range of products from solar panels to electric vehicles – to give UK exporters access to the huge $370bn(£294bn) green subsidies programme, the Inflation Reduction Act,introduced by President Biden to turbocharge huge green investment in the US.*
What absolute bullshit spin by the Murdoch outlet. The deal allows UK companies to *buy* that stuff *from American suppliers*, who are being supported by the IR Act.
This reads like UK companies are going to get billions in American cash. They’re not.
What’s this deal? Georgia peanuts and chlorinated chicken for our National Health Sevice?
Tories have gone full Banzi in the run up to the next election with their desperate fire sale.
The US plays Britain like a fiddle yet again. They never learn that the so-called special relationship is one-sided.
Looks like we give up data protections so the US tech firms can get around GDPR and monetise us even more in exchange for a might ask congress to let BAE bid as a US supplier for arm’s manufacturing etx.
Awesome deal for the billionaires again
And the headline savings for uk businesses a whopping £90 million in cut red tape.
Rashi got short shrift there. ‘Deal’ is a huge exaggeration, it’s a declaration which is just words.
USA: Your not going to get a trade deal, Or anything close to that, however your media can use the phrase new partnership. That should allow you to save something of whatever you call this.
I don’t get it. You have a giant market just nearby. Like a 1 hour commute. Why? Just why
Biden hates the UK. There’ll be no trade deal while he is in the WH and to be honest, that’s good. We do t want low quality chemical filled Yank crap on our shelves and we don’t want a Yank run NHS either (even though parts of it seem to be already).
So sad that the UK government has reduced itself to putting out the begging bowl. This was inevitable after Brexit.
It could also read UK reliance on the US increases on the terms of the latter.
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