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Keir Starmer at the Jaguar Land Rover automobile manufacturing plant in Solihull, UK.Photographer: Adam Vaughan/EPA/Bloomberg

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By Lucy White, Yuko Takeo, and Heesu Lee

August 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared at a Jaguar Land Rover factory in May that his world-leading trade deal with President Donald Trump included a cut in US tariffs on British steel to zero.