{"id":84979,"date":"2025-05-08T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84979\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:49:08","slug":"britain-secures-trump-tariff-deal-for-auto-and-steel-industries-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84979\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain secures Trump tariff deal for auto and steel industries \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I know our incredible trade team is looking at all the meats, all the produce, really, all of our agriculture exports,\u201d Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said alongside the president, indicating Starmer’s Labour government has made concessions opening market access for imports of U.S. agri products.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not going to lower British food standards,\u201d said a No. 10 spokesperson, insisting the government has \u201calways been clear on our red lines when it comes to food standards\u201d with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Crucially, today\u2019s deal lowers Trump\u2019s additional 25 percent tariffs on the U.K.\u2019s automotive, steel and aluminum sectors imposed in early April \u2014 a benefit to British automakers who produce the U.K.\u2019s single largest goods export<\/a> to the U.S. totaling \u00a39 billion last year.<\/p>\n

The U.K. will be given a quota of 100,000 cars for export under Trump\u2019s 10 percent tariff, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters during the Oval Office announcement Thursday. British cars above that level will again face the 25 percent tariff.<\/p>\n

Ongoing talks between Washington and London will attempt to tackle Trump\u2019s threats to level tariffs on pharmaceuticals \u2014 the U.K.\u2019s second-largest goods export to the U.S. at \u00a36.6 billion \u2014 and threats to impose new 100 percent duties on foreign films.<\/p>\n

\"\"U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer struck a trade pact Thursday. | Pool Photo by Darren Staples via EPA<\/p>\n

Lowering the White House\u2019s 25 percent tariffs on steel will also help shore up Britain\u2019s failing industry, which faltered further last month when the government deployed an emergency plan<\/a> to put British Steel under state control.<\/p>\n

The U.K.-U.S. deal comes after months of negotiations leading up to the series of tariffs Trump announced in March and early April and is the first to be struck during the 90-day pause the White House placed on \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs on April 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I know our incredible trade team is looking at all the meats, all the produce, really, all of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[3971,1212,6850,748,346,32,1396,393,40891,1214,4884,475,806,807,2441,809,1144,11666,712,1218,479,1201,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-84979","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-agriculture","11":"tag-aluminum","12":"tag-beef","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-cars","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-dumping-duties","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-ethanol","19":"tag-exports","20":"tag-great-britain","21":"tag-imports","22":"tag-industry","23":"tag-keir-starmer","24":"tag-markets","25":"tag-negotiations","26":"tag-northern-ireland","27":"tag-produce","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-steel","30":"tag-tariffs","31":"tag-trade","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114473006766522785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84979","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=84979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}