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    Home - Business - Trump set to announce US will agree trade deal with UK – US media reports
    Business Updated:May 8, 2025

    Trump set to announce US will agree trade deal with UK – US media reports

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    Trump set to announce US will agree trade deal with UK – US media reports

    Cliff Notes – Trump set to announce US will agree trade deal with UK reports

    • Donald Trump is expected to announce a trade deal with the UK today, following reports from the New York Times.
    • The British pound saw a modest increase of 0.4% against the US dollar after the announcement was hinted at, with senior officials indicating progress on tariff reductions.
    • Ongoing negotiations include potential trade agreements with other nations, amidst a backdrop of escalating tensions in the US-China trade war.

    Trump set to announce US will agree trade deal with UK

    Donald Trump is set to announce that America will agree a trade deal with the UK, according to reports in the US.

    Three sources familiar with the reported plans told the New York Times that the US president will make the announcement on Thursday.

    Shortly after the report emerged the value of the British pound rose by 0.4% against the US dollar.

    Mr Trump had earlier teased that he would be announcing a major trade deal in the Oval Office at 10am local time (3pm UK time) on Thursday without specifying which country it had been agreed with.

    Writing in a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, he said the news conference announcing the deal would be held with “representatives of a big, and highly respected, country”.

    He did not offer more details but said the announcement would be the “first of many”.

    A White House spokesperson has declined to comment on the New York Times report.

    ‘Liberation Day on rivals and allies’

    Senior Trump officials have been engaging in a flurry of meetings with trading partners since the US president announced his “liberation day” tariffs on both the US’ geopolitical rivals and allies on 2 April.

    Mr Trump imposed a 10% tariff on most countries including the UK during the announcement, along with higher “reciprocal” tariff rates for many trading partners.

    However those reciprocal tariffs were later suspended for 90 days.

    Britain was not among the countries hit with the higher reciprocal tariffs because it imports more from the US than it exports there.

    However, the UK was still impacted by a 25% tariff on all cars and all steel and aluminium imports to the US.

    A UK official said on Tuesday that the two countries had made good progress on a trade deal that would likely include lower tariff quotas on steel and cars.

    Mr Trump said the same day that he and top administration officials would review potential trade deals with other countries over the next two weeks to decide which ones to accept.

    Last week he said that he has “potential” trade deals with India, South Korea and Japan.

    US and Chinese officials to discuss trade war

    It comes as the US and China have been engaged in an escalating trade war since Mr Trump took office in January.

    The Trump administration has raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% while Beijing has responded with levies of 125% in recent weeks.

    US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are set to meet their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this week to discuss the trade war.

    China has made the de-escalation of the tariffs a requirement for trade negotiations, which the meetings are supposed to help establish.


    Sources

    Trump Administration to Announce Trade Deal With Britain – New York Times

    Trump: US leader teases trade deal with ‘highly respected country‘ – BBC

    UK officials land in Washington as talks over trade agreement continue – The Guardian

    Trump set to announce US will agree trade deal with UK – reports – MSN

    Britain and US set to announce ‘major trade deal’ – The Times

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