{"id":141411,"date":"2025-09-16T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141411\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:38:09","slug":"trump-wants-to-help-britain-get-a-better-trade-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141411\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants to \u2018help\u2019 Britain get a better trade deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s words will be music to the ears of trade negotiators who hope to use the state visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-donald-trump-keir-starmer-us-steel-tariff-relief\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charm the president into dropping 25 percent tariffs<\/a> on steel and aluminum, in line with the deal agreed earlier in May.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators are also pressing the U.S. for preferential treatment on future pharmaceutical tariffs, contingent on the outcome of a U.S. investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Scottish government has been lobbying hard for reductions to duties on Scotch whisky, which is subject to the blanket 10 percent \u201creciprocal\u201d tariff applied to most U.K. goods.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump, a vocal admirer of the royal family, made clear that his priority was to meet the king and queen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimarily it&#8217;s to do with Prince Charles and Camilla,\u201d he said. \u201cThey&#8217;re friends of mine for a long time &#8230; It&#8217;s an honor to have him as King. I think he represents the country so well &#8230; He&#8217;s such an elegant gentleman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s words will be music to the ears of trade negotiators who hope to use the state visit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141,13708,59,57,58,984,6235,128,50,2696,156,426,56,65678,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-141411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-donald-trump","tag-dumping-duties","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-lobbying","tag-music","tag-news","tag-steel","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-uk-us-trade-talks","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}