{"id":549819,"date":"2026-04-25T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:03:20","slug":"why-trump-is-threatening-to-impose-a-big-tariff-on-the-u-k-and-how-london-is-responding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549819\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Is Threatening to Impose a \u2018Big Tariff\u2019 on the U.K.\u2014and How London Is Responding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The Canadian government then<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-finance\/news\/2025\/06\/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> announced<\/a> its decision to rescind the tax \u201cin anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The tax, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/services\/taxes\/excise-taxes-duties-and-levies\/digital-services-tax.html\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">officially rescinded<\/a> last month, applied a levy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/services\/taxes\/excise-taxes-duties-and-levies\/digital-services-tax\/about-tax.html\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3%<\/a> on revenues similar to those taxed by the U.K.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can King Charles\u2019 state visit to D.C. save the &#8220;special&#8221; U.K.-U.S. relationship?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">With the visit of British royals now just days away, Trump is eyeing up the meeting with King Charles and Queen Camilla as an opportunity to reestablish a stronger connection between London and Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">When asked if the royal visit could help repair the historically strong relationship, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gcn-8XDrt-s\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201cAbsolutely, the answer is yes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian government then announced its decision to rescind the tax \u201cin anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,595,3962,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-u-k","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549819","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=549819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}