{"id":268339,"date":"2025-07-17T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268339\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:00:10","slug":"britains-trade-chief-to-press-white-house-on-trump-tariffs-in-washington-trip-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268339\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s trade chief to press White House on Trump tariffs in Washington trip \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/13026362-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6923778\"  \/>Britain\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, warned last weekend that he expects America\u2019s 10 percent tariff on U.K. goods is \u201chere to stay\u201d despite the U.K.\u2019s efforts. | Pool photo by Bonnie Cash\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>When the U.S. raised tariffs on the metal imports to 50 percent at the start of June, the U.K.\u2019s tariff rate remained at 25 percent thanks to the trade deal Trump struck with Starmer in May. But further tariff relief for the sectors, promised in the deal, is yet to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>Getting Trump to cut both reciprocal and steel and aluminum tariffs will be difficult, said Maxime Darmet, an economist at Allianz Trade. The U.S. wants to keep the 10 percent tariffs \u201cas a minimum\u201d and warned that steel and aluminum \u201care two sectors they really want to protect.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNegotiations are going to be tough on agri-food trade,\u201d Darmet added, pointing out that Washington will push Britain to offer more market access for U.S. farmers in exchange for further tariff relief. London committed to aligning with EU food standards at a key summit with Brussels in May, he pointed out, making it tricky to open its market further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/britain-confident-lowering-donald-trump-10-percent-tariff-trade-steel-keir-starmer-uk-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reynolds acknowledged last month<\/a> that it will be difficult to get the Trump administration to implement cuts to the 25 percent steel and aluminum tariffs promised in the U.K.\u2019s trade agreement with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because of the U.S.\u2019s \u201cmelt and pour rules\u201d that require steel imported to the U.S. to be manufactured in its country of origin, he said. Britain\u2019s largest steel mill at Port Talbot is currently importing steel from India and the Netherlands as it transitions to new electric arc furnaces.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Stace, director-general of industry lobby UK Steel, warned earlier this month: \u201cIt remains unclear whether, and when, our second-largest export market will fully reopen, and when our U.S. customers can confidently place orders knowing they will receive the agreed zero-tariff rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Business and Trade declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, warned last weekend that he expects America\u2019s 10 percent tariff on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[356,1212,748,32,393,2915,1214,6644,4884,475,806,1443,807,2441,809,1144,28300,7697,712,1218,479,1201,6862,1219,16,15,49,1764,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-268339","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-aerospace","11":"tag-aluminum","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-exclusive","16":"tag-exports","17":"tag-farmers","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-imports","20":"tag-industry","21":"tag-jonathan-reynolds","22":"tag-keir-starmer","23":"tag-markets","24":"tag-negotiations","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-peter-mandelson","27":"tag-ports","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-steel","30":"tag-tariffs","31":"tag-trade","32":"tag-trade-agreements","33":"tag-trade-war","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-united-states","37":"tag-wales","38":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114866580828308630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268339","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=268339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}