US UK trade agreement: What we know when Trump offers comments

THe presented the United States and the United Kingdom the broad outline of a trade agreement on Thursday, the first sign of a deal since President Donald Trump, who launched global tariffs in early April.

Trump was participated in a press conference by Oval Office by Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador in the USA and the US Minister of Trade Howard Lutnick. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer took part in a spokesman phone on Trump's desk and called the announcement a “fantastic, historical day”.

While many details of the agreement have not yet been coordinated, Trump described the deal as “coherent” and said that “the last details” were “written down in the coming weeks”. He continued that the agreement confirms that “reciprocity and fairness are an essential and important principle of international trade”.

Trump said that he would stay in place for most goods that come from Great Britain to the USA. The deal will open the British market for American exports such as ethanol, agriculture and machines and remove tariffs on steel and aluminum between the two countries. “You will also quickly follow the American goods through your customs process, so that our exports go to a very, very fast form of approval. There will be no bureaucracy,” said Trump about the British partnership.

Trump agreed to limit tariffs on a defined number of Great Britain cars with 10%, and some specialized auto parts and engines manufactured in the American production may be sold without fees.

Lutnick explained how the agreement will include the auto industry. “Great Britain could send 100,000 cars to the USA and only pay a tariff of 10%,” he said, standing next to Trump. Rolls-Royce engine that is also used in US Maded aircraft can be exported by Great Britain to US tariff freedom.

Once Mandelson jokingly offered Trump a Rolls-Royce to sell with a “very modest discount”. Trump smiled and said: “I actually had a lot of them” and added that he bought a Tesla the last time he was buying a car.

The British government officials said that the new trade agreement will reduce 27.5% to 10% tariffs for up to 100,000 British cars and eliminate the tariffs on steel and aluminum. In return, the deal creates a new mutual market for beef and eliminates the tariff for ethanol that comes to Great Britain from the USA. “And to be very clear, American beef is the safest, the best quality and the crown jewel of American agriculture for the world”

The British consumers have long been careful how American meat products are processed and packaged before they are sent overseas, including use in the USA of chlorine in some meat processing systems. In the UK, washing chicken parts with chorin

Jamison Greer, representative of the United States, who was involved in the negotiations, said that the details about the labeling and the export rules for meat products were still discussed.

The trade agreement takes place after Trump set a tariff of 10% in Great Britain at the beginning of this year. Shortly afterwards, Trump announced even higher taxes for imports for many other countries before taking a break for 90 days. Great Britain was not a goal of these higher tariffs, since the United States already has a trade surplus with Great Britain, which means that the British buys more from the USA than sells them. Before this latest trade agreement, Great Britain was subjected to the 25% tariff for all steel, aluminum, cars and auto parts imported into the USA

During the meeting, Starrer noticed the time of the news and how it falls on the 80th anniversary of Ve Day, which marks the end of the Second World War in Europe. Starrer said from the US UK cooperation that it was “a real homage to the story that we work together so closely”.

Trump teased the agreement before the official announcement, which was published on his social media platform Truth Social that it was a “complete and comprehensive” agreement between the two nations and that it was “a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our first announcement”. Trump said that more agreements in “serious stages of negotiations” are and will follow.

The news of the agreement reacted from British legislators. The British Chancellor Rachel Reeves offered an optimistic outlook and emphasized the “incredibly strong trade and investment connections between Great Britain and the USA” that a trade agreement with the United States is unlikely to influence on current discussions between Great Britain and the EU. We shouldn't decide between countries.

However, Jonathan Haskel, an economic professor and a former member of the Bank of England Bank Committee, followed caution before everything was signed.

“People should remember that there is a big difference between trade agreements and trade agreements,” he said in BBC Radio Today Program. “Trade agreements are limited and short -term and partially and only covers a few articles. Trade agreements are wide and long -term.”

Trump-Starker: A short story of your relationship

Since Trump's second term as President, the two guides seem to establish a positive relationship, despite the uncertainty about tariffs and contradicting approaches to war in Ukraine.

Trump and Strander met in February in the Oval Office of the White House, shortly after Trump had returned during his second term, and the meeting was widely regarded as a good start to her relationship as a co-world leader.

The British Prime Minister provided a letter from King Charles III. To the president and invited Trump to a state visit that was gratefully accepted. Trump also described Starer as “a very hard negotiator”, as the two discussed about tariffs.

“In a moment of real danger all over the world, this relationship is more important than ever,” said Starrer about the relationships between Great Britain and the relationships when the two nations work together, “we win and do things”.

Before Park became a prime minister in 2024, he had a more difficult relationship with Trump. In January 2016, Starrer criticized the president and said: “We are convicted of condemning Donald Trump's comments on topics such as Mexican immigrants, Muslims and women” and added that he had the feeling that Trump was made “repulsive”.

In June 2018, Starrer also said: “Humanity and dignity. Two words that President Trump did not understand.” In response to a video that shows migrants in the United States, in which parents and children seemed to be separated.

In October 2024, Trump's campaign team submitted an official complaint in which the Labor Party of Starrer accused the “obvious foreign interference” due to the US presidential election in 2024.