It was May 8, during a hastily organized press conference. Donald Trump in the Oval Office and Keir Starmer in videoconference from a Jaguar Land Rover factory in the Midlands, in the United Kingdom, greeted an agreement “ History “. The leading trade negotiation of the United States since the “Liberation Day” of the American president on April 2. The agreement “Is beneficial for British companies and workers, it will protect thousands of jobs in key sectors, including automotive construction and steel industry”had congratulated the British Prime Minister, adding that “The United Kingdom has no better ally than the United States.”
The agreement was not a classic commercial treaty, covering a very wide spectrum of products and resulting from long years of negotiations: it was essentially for the United Kingdom to avoid punitive prices for the export to the United States of their cars, their steel and their aluminum. The American tax on British vehicles was supposed to be reduced from 27.5 % to 10 % for an annual quota of 100,000 cars sent to the United States (the rate that returns to its initial level for all additional imported cars).
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