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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Supermarkets call for EU-UK deal on plant and animal exports

    Marks and Spencer and J Sainsbury intervene over veterinary agreement ahead of ‘reset’ summit next month

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    US-UK relations
    JD Vance predicts ‘good chance’ of US-UK trade agreement

    US vice-president says Trump administration is ‘working very hard’ with Starmer government on tariffs

    JD Vance is speaking at a podium while Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK retail industry
    UK retail bosses raise fears of Chinese ‘dumping’ due to Trump tariffs

    Companies flag signs of goods being diverted from US to Europe via platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon

    A Currys store on Oxford Street in central London
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    UK suspends import tariffs to ease strain for British businesses

    Levies cut on 89 products to support domestic companies against Trump’s trade war

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Starmer shifts focus in US trade talks to cutting 25% tariff on UK cars

    Prime minister admits he does not know if Trump can be persuaded to scrap 10% levy on all imports

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks next to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    UK and India rush to secure trade deal after Trump tariffs

    Long-delayed talks between London and New Delhi given fresh impetus by US taxes on imports

    Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Trade war makes improved UK-EU relations ‘imperative’, says Reeves

    Britain could exploit the chaos unleashed by Donald Trump, chancellor tells FT

    Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Electric vehicles
    EV targets watered down to help tariff-hit UK car industry

    New rules will allow manufacturers to sell full hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles until 2035

    An electric car plugged into a EV charging point
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    UK pushes back on Trump’s claim Britain is ‘happy’ with 10% tariff

    Country seeks improved trade deal with US after rate applied to British imports

    A Jaguar Land Rover factory
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Northern Ireland fears becoming ‘collateral damage’ in trade war

    Brexit deal means region could be hit by EU counter-tariffs on US goods

    Shoppers on Donegall Place in view of the Belfast City Hall in central Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    UK economy
    UK consults business on retaliation against Trump tariffs

    Starmer pledges to redouble efforts to strike trade deal with the US

    Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Starmer braced for Trump tariffs as UK seeks better outcome than EU

    Prime minister still hopes to secure a trade deal with the US president

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    ExplainerTrump tariffs
    What price will the UK pay for a trade deal with Donald Trump?

    Sir Keir Starmer may have to make concessions on Britain’s digital services tax and agriculture

    Montage shows Donald Trump against pictures of mackerel, Jaguar Land Rover cars, a circuit board and some pills
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    US-UK relations
    UK carmakers back Starmer’s no-tariff approach to Trump

    Auto groups told ministers on Friday they wanted more support for the sector domestically

    Employees work on a Range Rover Sport SUV using robotic arms at Tata Motors Ltd.’s Jaguar Land Rover vehicle manufacturing plant in Solihull, U.K
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Trump tariffs hang over Reeves’ plan to repair UK public finances

    Chancellor takes axe to Whitehall jobs as government faces pressure from US over tech tax

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    UK races to avoid Trump tariffs

    US wants Britain to drop its digital services tax, which affects big American companies

  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    UK must be more ambitious in rebuilding EU relations, says business group

    British Chambers of Commerce head says recent warm words about post-Brexit reset are ‘not nearly enough’

    Shevaun Haviland
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    UK races to avoid worst of Trump tariffs with talks on tech tax

    US wants Britain to drop its digital services tax, which affects big American companies

    Jonathan Reynolds is pictured speaking animatedly with one hand raised
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    UK trade minister seeks to fend off threat of US tariffs

    Britain’s digital services tax set to remain point of dispute at Washington meeting

    UK trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Office for National Statistics UK
    UK statistics agency delays release of trade data after finding error

    Move by Office for National Statistics will fuel questions over quality of its figures following problems with jobs survey

    City of London skyline
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Starmer says he is ‘disappointed’ by US tariffs on UK steel

    PM vows to ‘keep all options on table’ after EU hits back against Washington with retaliatory measures

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    UK minister Reynolds vows to ‘stand up’ for British steel as US tariffs loom

    Cabinet member notes Britain had measures available that it used in response to levies during Donald Trump’s first term

    An employee cuts a sample from a roll of coiled steel inside Liberty House Group’s rolling steel mill in Newport, UK
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Explainer
    What’s at stake in the US-UK trade talks?

    Donald Trump has raised the prospect of a deal that could help Britain avoid tariffs

    Montage shows two hands - one with a US flag sleeve and one with a UK flag sleeve - reaching out to shake across a data background.
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    UK and India relaunch trade talks in bid to boost investment opportunities

    British government has pinpointed world’s most populous country as key export market for its businesses

    Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, flanked by the national flags of Britain and India in New Delhi in 2022
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    UK Government
    Trade-promoting UK departments face ‘up to 40%’ staff cuts

    Restructuring plans come as Britain seeks to boost inward investment

    Businesses from the CPTPP region come together for a reception to mark the UK joining the trade group
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