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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

The UK-US trade deal has been thrown into chaos by Trump tariff ban - where do we go from here?

In their haste to be seen as Donald Trump’s closest buddies, there is now a serious question mark over whether Sir Keir Starmer and his government should have shown more patience in getting a “great and beautiful” trade deal with the US.

The deal, which was symbolically the first post-“Liberation Day” agreement signed by President Trump with any country, was put in place to reduce the impact of the tariffs the US president had imposed.

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