Trump 'makes a second order priority in Great Britain in the ministers in priority Trade policy

With Great Britain, Donald Trump has made a trade agreement a second order priority. Sources have communicated The Guardian and hindered the British attempts to keep their deadline from May.

US officials have decided to divide their negotiations with more than a dozen of other countries into three phases, with Great Britain in the two or three phase of two or three people who have been informed about the discussions.

A trade agreement with the United States would be the largest price for British negotiators who made great progress towards separate agreements with the EU and India on Tuesday.

However, the British officials fear that a deal with the EU, which they can agree to on a summit on May 19, could be more difficult to negotiate with a Trump government that repeated European trade policy.

A person with knowledge of the US talks said: “The United States has now decided to negotiate its trade agreements in three phases. The government was informed that it will not be in phase one – although the door remains open to be in the two or three phase.”

A spokesman for the business department said: “The United States is an indispensable ally and negotiations on economic prosperity that strengthens our existing trade relationship.

“We were clear that a trade war was not in the interest of none and we will continue to pursue a quiet and steady approach for discussions.”

The White House did not respond to an inquiry to comment.

The British officials gave a draft for their US colleagues weeks ago weeks ago weeks ago before the president's main tariff. They hoped to agree in time to grant the United Kingdom an exception, but when this failed, they shift their focus instead on a self -imposed period of May 19.

Whitehall sources, however, say that negotiations in the weeks have continued to be unpredictable since Trump that his announcement was announced. According to UK, US officials report that the food quality standards in Great Britain to enable imports of American beef and chicken -are demanding something that the Labor government has been excluded for a long time.

The draft contract created by the British side would mean that Britain would be paid its digital service tax, which is only paid by large US technology companies, in return for lower tariffs in steel, aluminum and cars. Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, has also endured the possibility of reducing the 10% tariffs on US cars as an additional sweetener.

In the past few days, however, the Trump administration has decided to divide its negotiations with 17 different countries into three groups, each of which is negotiated for a week – a development that was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The United States completed a period of July 8 for the talks to close – a few weeks later than the British goal.

Sources said that the British officials had been communicated that the immediate priority would negotiate with Asian countries, with South Korea at the top of the list.

Scott Bessent, the US finance minister, said on Tuesday that Asian trading partners such as India, South Korea and Japan “were the upcoming business in terms of business”.

He also criticized the European countries that they control US companies and said he wanted them to be removed. The British government has offered to reduce the tax, but not to drop it completely.

Despite the new negotiation approach of the Trump administration, the British negotiators are confident that they can continue the discussions – even if unofficially – in the next few weeks.

A government source described the US tactics as “provisional and unpredictable”. Another sight had continued in the past few days despite the promised phase negotiations.

However, Great Britain is doing better with India and the EU.

The negotiators held crunch talks with their Indian colleagues on Tuesday afternoon, after Piyush Goyal, India's Minister of Commerce, had announced companies in a roundtable in London that 25 out of 26 aspects of the deal were agreed.

The British officials hoped that they had completed the deal on Tuesday, but a source of the talks stated that they were separated via national insurance contributions without agreement. A long -standing sticking point was Delhi's concern that Indians in Great Britain, who work on business visa in Great Britain, have to take out national insurance, even though they are not entitled to British pensions or social security benefits.

The expectation is that at least one further round of talks will be required to complete every deal. This year, civil servants will discuss a potential visit from Keir Strander to India as soon as an agreement has been concluded.

In the meantime, British ministers, including Nick Thomas Symond, the Minister of Cabinet Bureau, and Jonathan Reynolds, the Minister of the Business, Maroš Šefčovič, the EU trade commissioner, met in the middle of signs that a British EU deal could get closer.

Afterwards, Šefčovič tweeted “a productive exchange regarding the securing of balanced trade relationships, since we are faced with a new global dynamic”.

Last week, the Guardian announced that Brussels was ready to make his suggestions for a youth mobility program to make a contract for the line, including the limitation of working visa to 12 months, and the sectors on which EU citizens can work.

However, experts say that the plans for the establishment of British agricultural standards with European impossible would make it impossible to give concessions about the US demands instead.

Anand Menon, the director of the Thinktank UK in a changing Europe, said on Tuesday: “If the Americans say that they have to raise the regulations that limit the access of our goods to their market, this is incompatible with what we need to do to sign a … deal with the EU.”