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PM insists UK approach to tariffs is correct as other nations offered reprieve

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Wire)

The UK was right not to retaliate against Donald Trump’s tariffs, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted, as a pause on the trade tax means other nations face the same low rate as Britain.

Most countries now face a 10% rate on importing goods to America after the US president temporarily halted the sweeping retaliatory tariffs which had sent global markets into turmoil.

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