{"id":169138,"date":"2025-06-09T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169138\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:32:09","slug":"trump-promised-britain-a-trade-deal-so-where-is-it-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169138\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump promised Britain a trade deal. So where is it? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Keir Starmer conceded it could be \u201cjust a couple of weeks\u201d more before the U.S.-U.K. Economic Prosperity Deal, struck on May 8, actually comes into effect. | Pool Photo by Andy Rain via EPA<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the original document implied the deal would come into force shortly after the announcement, I think there is a reasonable expectation that the benefits will be backdated once they are eventually put on the books,\u201d Lowe said. \u201cBut this isn\u2019t 100 percent guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting pummeled<\/p>\n

Executives from Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Steel told lawmakers last week that they\u2019re getting pummeled by U.S. tariffs. The duties have hit Britain\u2019s steel exporters since early March<\/a>, while carmakers have faced the sectoral duties since early April.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deal is not implemented as it stands at the moment,\u201d Murray Paul, public affairs director at Jaguar Land Rover, told the U.K. parliament\u2019s Business and Trade Committee.<\/p>\n

The firm, he said, is \u201cworking under the assumption\u201d that it will be reimbursed for any tariffs that it has paid the U.S. government backdated to May 8. \u201cWe need to know when the [Executive Order] will be signed for implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s \u2026 a limit [to] how much we can do in the background to absorb some of that pricing,\u201d JLR\u2019s Paul said, noting that price rises have been passed on to customers. The firm had paused its exports after Trump imposed the 25 percent tariffs in early April, but restarted U.S. shipments the weekend before Downing Street announced the deal. <\/p>\n

The 25 percent tariffs on British steel exports have proven \u201cextraordinarily difficult,\u201d Russell Codling, Tata Steel\u2019s director of markets and business development, told members of parliament. The company does between \u00a3100 million and \u00a3150 million-worth of business in the U.S. each year.<\/p>\n

Even with just the 25 percent tariff, Codling said, \u201cat the moment we\u2019re extremely exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stefan Boscia contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer conceded it could be \u201cjust a couple of weeks\u201d more before the U.S.-U.K. Economic Prosperity Deal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[1212,24407,11078,6850,3444,748,346,1395,2437,12495,32,1396,1305,393,1214,6644,4884,475,806,1443,807,2441,809,1144,5111,7965,11585,24409,70633,712,1398,1218,70634,6648,479,1201,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-169138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-aluminum","11":"tag-andrew-griffith","12":"tag-batteries","13":"tag-beef","14":"tag-books","15":"tag-britain","16":"tag-cars","17":"tag-china","18":"tag-companies","19":"tag-development","20":"tag-donald-trump","21":"tag-dumping-duties","22":"tag-electric-vehicles","23":"tag-england","24":"tag-exports","25":"tag-farmers","26":"tag-great-britain","27":"tag-imports","28":"tag-industry","29":"tag-jonathan-reynolds","30":"tag-keir-starmer","31":"tag-markets","32":"tag-negotiations","33":"tag-northern-ireland","34":"tag-parliament","35":"tag-platforms","36":"tag-public-affairs","37":"tag-rules-of-origin","38":"tag-sarah-jones","39":"tag-scotland","40":"tag-shipping","41":"tag-steel","42":"tag-stefan-boscia","43":"tag-supply-chains","44":"tag-tariffs","45":"tag-trade","46":"tag-uk","47":"tag-united-kingdom","48":"tag-united-states","49":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}