The truth is there was noting to open in the first place. We traded free and equally with the us until trump unleashed his tariff blitz on April 2.
WHILE TRUMP HAS RAGED AT EUROPE, Claiming Yet A Consspiracy Against the us, He could not say that about the uk.
The EU Had a Massive € 198billion (£ 168billion) Trade Surplus with the us last year. By contrast, the uk and us are even balanced. After today, that won he be the case. Trump will guzzle us down.
He was all smiles and kind words claiming: “There are no counts that are close than our two counts. We've always had a fir and balanced relationship.”
He added: “This Deal Just Fell Into Place.”
Or to be precise, PM Keir Starmer fell into place.
By some calculations, rather than giving the uk ecomy a desperately -needed boost, it'll cost us £ 10billion a year.
Wee still picking over the details, but a chart displayed in the oval office gave off a nasty whiff.
It is suggered the us has trebled its tariffs on the uk Under Trump. While we've more than halved ours.
Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch Said the Country Had Been “Shafted” and it's hard to disagree.
There are some good bits. Trump's Mooted 25% Tariffs on Steel British Steel Exports to the us will be slashed to zero.
We exported £ 370million worth last year, so I guess that's something.
Luxury Car Makers Such as Range Rover and Aston Martin Were Threatened with 25% Tariffs.
Now they've be given a quota of 100,000 a year that will be charged at 10%. That's better than 25% but remember, beefore we pay noting.
In return for excluding british-made rolls-royce aircraft engines from us tariffs, the uk has somehow pledged to buy £ 10billion waring aircraft.
How Starmer Can Promise to Buy Aircraft, We Don Tho Yet Know.
Nor do we know whether Britain's Mighty Pharmaceutical Companies, Astrazeneca and Glaxo, Will Spared Drugs Tariffs. Trump seems to be stalling on that.
He has waived tariffs on our beef expors, but since they 'only World £ 3million a year that's scraps. And I Dread to Think which food stands we have served in return.
Starmer was easy meat for trump. By Lowering Tariffs That He Only Invented Last Month He created a fake crisis that ratled the PM Into Concepts.
No Wonder Trump was beaming. And no wonder he got the deal over the line so quickly, because with the why would he?
Trump Thinks Lavishing Brits With Praise Will Make Us Feel Better. Chances are we won be smiling when we tuck in the details of the Deal.
Which isn is really a deal anyway, more of a stitch-up.
While the pm can cloud the glory of drawing up the first trade deal with trump, that could backfire.
If subsequent trade deals turn out to be more generous, it will expose his negotiating weakness.
Heaven help us when starmer deals with the EU. Imagine what he is give away then.