{"id":254252,"date":"2025-07-10T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254252\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:21:24","slug":"eu-humiliated-as-brexit-britain-scores-major-win-over-brussels-in-trump-trade-war-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254252\/","title":{"rendered":"EU humiliated as Brexit Britain scores major win over Brussels in Trump trade war | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Union is likely to get a worse trade deal with Donald Trump<\/a> than the UK, according to diplomatic sources. Brussels and Washington are still locked in talks, but a “temporary” deal is expected to be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The agreement is expected to see a baseline reciprocal 10% levy imposed on imports, which is the same rate the UK was able to negotiate. However, in a major blow for Brussels<\/a>, EU negotiators have failed to win any “sectoral” concessions – unlike the UK. Downing Street negotiators were able to secure tariff free trade for UK exports of steel and aluminium.<\/p>\n

Britain was also granted an annual quota of 100,000 cars at a 10% tariff, in a big boost for UK-based automotive manufacturers. This represents a considerable discount from the 25% levy that other exporters will have to pay.<\/p>\n

The UK was quick out of the blocks to start trade talks with the Trump<\/a> administration following the so-called “liberation Day” in April. In June, Trump signed off on a deal agreed in May during the G7 summit in Canada, saying the UK would have protection against future tariffs \u201cbecause I like them\u201d.<\/p>\n

The deal was derided by EU officials and diplomats, who said the UK had acted too hastily and negotiated bad terms for itself.<\/p>\n

The EU was confident that the size of its market would give it more leverage in trade talks with Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, those hopes appear to have been dashed for the time being, with the bloc ruing its approach to the negotiations. A diplomat told the Financial Times<\/a>: “The UK agreement was better than this. It\u2019s a surprise given how long we have negotiated.”<\/p>\n

Bernard Arnault – the chief executive of LVMH – praised the UK saying in May London had “negotiated well”, while Brussels had got off to a “bad start”. The White House hailed the “historic” deal, claiming it would provide unprecedented access to British markets for US firms.<\/p>\n

The US will be able to export a tariff-free quota of 13,000 tonnes of beef and 1.4 billion litres of bioethanol. Downing Street<\/a> has also promised to take into account White House concerns over the use of Chinese supply lines by UK companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union is likely to get a worse trade deal with Donald Trump than the UK, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,32,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,2916,16,15,659,1018],"class_list":{"0":"post-254252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-trade-deals","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114830565888282112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254252","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=254252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}