Trump’s Trade Deal With the UK Leaves Steel Tariffs Unresolved
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Keir Starmer stooping to recover the latest iteration of the UK’s trade agreement with President Donald Trump was an awkward symbol of the current shape of the negotiations. The deal must continually be dealt with. And the British prime minister will have do most of the bending.
The papers that slipped from Trump’s hands — a fumble he blamed on the wind on the sidelines of Group of Seven meetings in Kananaskis, Canada — give the UK something that has eluded other trading partners: a signed document promising preferential relief from US tariffs.