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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Richard Hall

Trump and Starmer put lipstick on a pig of a trade deal

US President Donald Trump gets a reaction from UK ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson as they take questions from the media in the Oval Office - (Evan Vucci/AP)

More than a month after Donald Trump set the global economy on fire to rebalance America’s trade relationship with the entire world, the self-proclaimed master negotiator has finally struck his first deal.

Given that the entire premise of Trump’s tariff gambit was that countries were “taking advantage” of the United States, it might come as a surprise that his first agreement was with one of the few countries with which the U.S. has a trade surplus.

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