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How good is Trump's deal for America?

When President Donald Trump unveiled comprehensive taxes on imports from all over the world last month, he said, the measures that aimed to correct the trade relationships in America.

In his new pact with Great Britain, we received an insight into the type of agreements that he could negotiate worldwide.

Both the United States and Great Britain have only offered limited details on the new trade agreement, which both say that it will still be worked out in the coming weeks.

But anyone who hopes that the White House either have a significant impact or gain large concessions abroad – seem to be obliged to be obliged to disappoint.

As part of the overview presented on Thursday, the 10% import tax, which Trump announced last month for most British goods, will remain intact.

Otherwise, the plans were mainly agreed with the White House to return some of the import taxes that it presented for strategic sectors such as cars and steel.

In return, the White House said that there were no specified changes that would expand the possibilities for the sale of American beef, ethanol and other agricultural products in the UK.

“The actual objects of content they negotiated are quite narrow,” said Stan Veuger, a senior scholarship holder in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “In a sense, one could say that they basically take the status quo, made marginal changes and described it as a deal.”

The Trump administration, in which the markets were panicked in their tariff announcements, endeavored to sell the announcement as significant and described it as a “breakthrough”.

In Great Britain, Sir Keir called Starrer, who also incentive to be seen as a solid negotiator, “historically” while he found that more work was to be done.

Steel manufacturers and car companies in Great Britain have expressed relief and said that the tariff rollback would help save jobs.

But nobody was missed that goods from Great Britain are still suspended even higher tariffs despite progress than a few weeks ago.

In the United States, most analysts agreed that material advantages were limited, although the two sides discussed the trade for almost a decade.

Mr. Veuger noticed that Trump was similar in his first term in the first term to explain the victory in business with China, Mexico and Canada that experts would also have a close influence.

“I think the goal for Trump is really to have a deal, and it doesn't matter what it looks like in the substance,” he said. “It tells me that it is not so difficult to get to a deal, but it also tells me that there is not so much space to make changes.”

The announcements on Thursday attracted an unusually sharp reproduction of American car manufacturers, which determined that the plans in Great Britain made cars for importing cheaper cars than many of the models produced by their companies that are operated in Mexico and Canada.

Other analysts plunged over the irony of the President, who were concerned that the tariffs increase the prices for dolls, while he is ready to reduce taxes on imported cars for ultra-well-hazard Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, which are British companies.

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association said that he welcomed the deal, but other groups that represent the farmers who are an essential part of Trump's political basis were particularly steamed.

The American Farm Bureau Federation called it an “important first step” and noticed that “more work is needed”.

“This is a good business for American farmers … but at the end of the day a fairly narrow framework,” said Lewis Lukens, former acting US ambassador to Great Britain and deputy chief of mission of the US message in London during a part of Trump's first term.

“There is a political victory not too much to show behind it.”

The Republicans, traditionally a free trade party, quickly celebrated performance.

Represented Adrian Smith, a Republican from Nebraska who heads a subcommittee for trade, said the BBC that he was “pleased” about the first trading pact.

“This is a considerable step towards the elimination of obstacles to American products in foreign markets and friendship chains,” he said, praising the administration for the fast negotiations, although he found that he was happy to negotiate details of the deal “in order to clear up additional concerns.”

In a reference to customers after the press conference, Paul Ashworth, Chief North America economist from Capital Economics, said “increasing despair” in the White House to alleviate their tariffs before causing considerable economic damage.

But these economic risks do not come from Great Britain, but from America's relationship with China, which last year, more than six times the UK in the United States, broadcast more than $ 400 billion in the USA.

Trump has increased import taxes on Chinese products to at least 145%, which prompted Beijing to take revenge with its own duties for American goods.

The trade between the two countries has dropped sharply since last month, which increases the fears that the tariffs will not only lead to price increases, as predicted, but also to a lack.

The two sides will have their first talks this weekend, but what will result in this remains unclear.

In the meantime, the watch ticks on a 90-day break that Trump has placed on some of the highest tariffs that he announced last month about partners such as the European Union, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Trump Testy appeared at the beginning of this week when they were asked by reporters about his trade negotiations.

“Everyone says: 'When, when, when will you sign shops?',” He said. “I wish you would … stop asking.”

However, it is unlikely that this announcement will be the one that brings the critics off his back in Great Britain.

Reporting by “the context” of the BBC television and Max Matza contributed

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