‘Down to the wire’: inside the UK’s crunch talks with the US as it bids to avoid Trump tariffs
Mar 28, 2025
Ministers seek carve-out from import taxes before 2 April deadline – but critics believe they may have offered too many concessionsUK ministers and senior officials at every level are holding talks with US counterparts this weekend in a last-ditch effort to secure a carve-out from swingeing import
taxes.Government sources said ministers were raising Donald Trump’s looming tariffs as the “No 1” issue in every conversation with the US. Continue reading... ...read more read less