NEW: U.K. Seeks New Trade Deal With U.S. In Effort To Avoid Trump’s Tariffs

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NEW: U.K. Seeks New Trade Deal With U.S. In Effort To Avoid Trump’s Tariffs

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on March 29, 2025

By Cullen McCue

The British government is hoping to negotiate a last minute, post-Brexit trade agreement with the U.S. in order to avoid, or at least mitigate, tariffs on European imports that are expected to be announced by President Trump next week.

Britain has been seeking to work out a new trade deal with the United States since leaving the European Union in 2020, though negotiations had stalled under the previous Conservative Party government. Curren Prime Minister Kier Starmer of the Labour Party met with President Trump at the White House back in February and left feeling confident that an agreement could be reached.

Trump seemed to agree, stating that a “great” deal that could help Britain avoid incoming tariffs was on the table. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds recently visited Washington in order to continue the talks, while Trump and Starmer held another conversation over the phone earlier this week.

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United Kingdom could be only G7 nation not to produce its own steel; Chinese owner blames Trump tariffs
Louis Casiano
FOX News via MSN
March 29, 2025

The United Kingdom could be the first G7 nation not to manufacture its own steel, with a major steel firm blaming President Donald Trump's tariffs for the planned closure of its two blast furnaces.

British Steel, which is owned by Jingye, the Chinese steel group, announced plans to close its two blast furnaces in England, The Telegraph reported. The closures put 2,700 jobs at risk and the end of steel production in the United Kingdom after 150 years. Jingye bought British Steel in 2020.

Jingye said the "imposition of tariffs" had made the blast furnaces and steel-making operations "no longer financially sustainable".  ...

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John Bulkeley
@bulkeley_john
Hey, and much good luck to the UK if they need to build a warship in a hurry and just can't seem to get the steel for it from other EU countries, especially if the UK and NATO ever finds themselves in a war with Russia and those same EU countries are a bit distracted from supplying steel to the UK because of that war.
11:39 AM · Mar 29, 2025

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U.K. Seeks New Trade Deal With U.S. In Effort To Avoid Trump’s Tariffs

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By Cullen McCue
March 29, 2025



The British government is hoping to negotiate a last minute, post-Brexit trade agreement with the U.S. in order to avoid, or at least mitigate, tariffs on European imports that are expected to be announced by President Trump next week.

Britain has been seeking to work out a new trade deal with the United States since leaving the European Union in 2020, though negotiations had stalled under the previous Conservative Party government. Curren Prime Minister Kier Starmer of the Labour Party met with President Trump at the White House back in February and left feeling confident that an agreement could be reached.

Trump seemed to agree, stating that a “great” deal that could help Britain avoid incoming tariffs was on the table. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds recently visited Washington in order to continue the talks, while Trump and Starmer held another conversation over the phone earlier this week.

The talks have intensified ahead of April 2, or “Liberation Day” as President Trump is calling it, when the president is expected to announce reciprocal tariffs on a number of trading partners, including the U.K. and the European Union. While Trump has imposed tariffs on goods imported from Canada, Mexico and China, he has yet to impose any on the European Union or the U.S., though he has suggested that he will do so in the future.

“Am I going to impose tariffs on the European Union? Do you want the truthful answer or should I give you a political answer? Absolutely” the president told reporters back in January. “Absolutely. The European Union has treated us so terribly,” Trump stated, reaffirming his longstanding concerns about the bloc’s trade practices.

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