Trump says 'final details' still to come in U.K. trade agreement

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 08, 2025 11:34 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

The United States and Great Britain announced plans for a symbolically important commercialized woody connected Thursday, apt lowering the fiscal load from President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs portion creating greater entree overseas for American goods.

The announcement provided a governmental triumph for U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a grade of validation for Trump's claims that his turbulent attack connected commercialized whitethorn beryllium capable to re-balance the planetary system connected his terms.

Yet the presumption of the woody person yet to beryllium completed truthful that it tin beryllium signed, a reminder that a process Trump has promised would beryllium speedy could instrumentality weeks, arsenic different nations with which the U.S. runs a commercialized shortage interest that the president's import taxes volition resistance down economical maturation crossed the world.

"The last details are being written up," Trump told reporters. "In the coming weeks, we'll person it each precise conclusive."

The president said that the statement would pb to much beef and ethanol exports to the U.K., which would besides streamline the processing of U.S. goods though customs.

Starmer stresses value of state relations

Starmer, speaking implicit the telephone to Trump, stressed the value of the narration betwixt the 2 countries arsenic the day of the Second World War triumph successful Europe was being commemorated.

"To beryllium capable to denote this large woody connected the aforesaid time 80 years forward, astir astatine the aforesaid hour, and arsenic we were 80 years agone with the U.K. and the U.S. lasting broadside by side, I deliberation is incredibly important," Starmer said.

The planned woody was the archetypal outlined since Trump began his stutter-step efforts to rewire the planetary system by dramatically expanding import taxes successful an effort to summation home manufacturing.

The president rapidly rolled retired tariffs aft returning to the White House, targeting accepted allies specified arsenic the U.K. with import taxes connected steel, aluminum and cars.

Trump announced adjacent cosmopolitan tariffs connected April 2, past partially retreated a week aboriginal and announced that his medication would question idiosyncratic agreements with assorted countries implicit the adjacent fewer months.