{"id":467479,"date":"2025-10-02T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467479\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:52:10","slug":"trump-tariff-threats-punch-holes-in-uk-trade-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467479\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariff threats punch holes in UK trade deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s auto industry also only exports a small amount of Heavy Goods Vehicles to the U.S., but \u201cwe\u2019re not quite clear on how they\u2019re defining a heavy truck,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinesses need as much certainty as possible on tariffs,\u201d said William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, citing research by the industry body showing 60 percent of U.K. goods exporters are concerned about their customers paying higher prices.<\/p>\n<p>Bain and the BCC plan to \u201curge\u201d the U.K. government \u201cto continue dialogue on tariff reduction with the U.S. administration in the interests of both U.K. businesses and their U.S. consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sitting comfortably?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/09\/adjusting-imports-of-timber-lumber-and-their-derivative-products-into-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a presidential notice<\/a> saying that in mid-October, it will slap 25 percent tariffs on the value of imported kitchen cabinets, vanities and upholstered furniture and 10 percent duties on softwood lumber.<\/p>\n<p>This is one British sector, however, which is sheltered by the May deal.  The administration said that U.K. tariffs will be leveled at 10 percent, in addition to the original \u201cmost-favored nation\u201d rates, per the terms of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The big hitter<\/p>\n<p>The president has also decided to revive an earlier bugbear, vowing to impose yet another 100 percent flat tariff on \u201cany and all movies that are made outside of the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s auto industry also only exports a small amount of Heavy Goods Vehicles to the U.S., but \u201cwe\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1212,1213,6850,748,28,9654,346,2437,5168,32,12849,1396,393,1214,4884,1195,475,806,1197,807,518,5167,2441,2452,809,1144,6738,10057,15857,2444,2343,712,811,7160,182,413,1218,479,1200,1201,16,20589,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-467479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-aluminum","10":"tag-americas","11":"tag-beef","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-buildings","14":"tag-capital-markets","15":"tag-cars","16":"tag-companies","17":"tag-construction","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-drug-pricing","20":"tag-dumping-duties","21":"tag-england","22":"tag-exports","23":"tag-great-britain","24":"tag-growth","25":"tag-imports","26":"tag-industry","27":"tag-investment","28":"tag-keir-starmer","29":"tag-king-charles-iii","30":"tag-manufacturing","31":"tag-markets","32":"tag-media","33":"tag-negotiations","34":"tag-northern-ireland","35":"tag-patients","36":"tag-pharma","37":"tag-pipelines","38":"tag-regulatory","39":"tag-research","40":"tag-scotland","41":"tag-security","42":"tag-simon-harris","43":"tag-social-media","44":"tag-space","45":"tag-steel","46":"tag-tariffs","47":"tag-tax","48":"tag-trade","49":"tag-uk","50":"tag-uk-us-trade-talks","51":"tag-united-kingdom","52":"tag-united-states","53":"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\/467479","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=467479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}