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UK trade

  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    US targets Britain’s pork, poultry and seafood markets

    Agricultural sectors are ‘front of the line’ in ongoing trade talks, says Trump’s agriculture secretary

    Pigs crowded together in a pen on a farm
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Automobiles
    US Bentley buyers delaying purchases after UK trade deal, boss warns

    Unanswered questions are making it ‘super hard’ to operate, Walliser tells FT auto summit

    A Bentley Bentayga on display at a motorsports gathering in Carmel, California, US
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    The unanswered questions over Trump’s trade deal with Britain

    Pact lacks clarity in many crucial areas, say trade experts and industry bodies

    Montage shows an F-35 jet, some pills, a cow and a fuel pump against the US and UK flags
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    US-UK trade deal squeezes China supply chains

    Diplomats say pact’s provisions on strategic sectors is template for Washington

    A worker in a hard hat stands in front of glowing red hot metal being moved across a heavy forge at the Forgemasters works in Sheffield
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    UK economy
    UK-US trade deal still leaves Britain facing high tariffs, says BoE governor

    Andrew Bailey believes agreement is ‘good news’ but warns that uncertainty is clouding business decisions

    Andrew Bailey
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Win for UK cars will not cushion the probable blow to taxpayers

    Government’s haste in striking limited US deal risks missing out on better terms

    Keir Starmer addresses Jaguar Land Rover staff
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    US and UK seal first deal of Donald Trump’s trade war

    White House and Downing Street celebrate tariff cuts but critics warn of a thin agreement that could face legal challenge

    US President Donald Trump announces his trade pact with the UK, with Peter Mandelson, Britain’s ambassador to Washington, looking on in the Oval Office of the White House on May 8 2025
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Cars, cows, crops: the winners and losers from Trump’s trade deal with Britain

    Experts warn pact still leaves UK facing higher tariffs on exports to the US than before president returned to office

    Montage shows Range Rover car and a cow against a backdrop of UK and US flags
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Months of talks, then a late scramble: how the UK finally struck a US trade deal

    Sir Keir Starmer welcomed agreement to blunt impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs

    Keir Starmer speaks on the phone with Donald Trump while visiting Jaguar Land Rover
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s trade deals are a starting point

    Agreements with the US and India are imperfect, but better than nothing

    Keir Starmer and Donald Trump at the White House. The agreement with America is merely a less bad outcome for the UK, relative to the tariffs it faced before the president’s inauguration
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Instant InsightAlan Beattie
    Britain’s trade deal with Trump may not be good news for the world

    Starmer’s choice undermines multilateralism and poses risks to the UK

    Donald Trump announces the trade pact in the Oval Office with, from left, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, vice-president JD Vance and Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK ambassador to the US
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Britain set to strike first trade deal with Trump

    Limited agreement is expected to be focused on British steel and car exports

    Keir Starmer and Donald Trump shake hands
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Early US trade pact is a diplomatic win as Starmer struggles at home

    Agreement likely to be narrow in scope and largely an exercise in damage limitation

    US President Donald Trump met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the White House in February
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Explainer
    What impact will the UK-India trade deal have?

    London predicts small GDP boost in long run as accord sets out contentious national insurance waiver

  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Badenoch agreed to trade deal tax arrangement, say Indian officials

    Conservative leader talking ‘rubbish’ after denouncing national insurance carve out

    Kemi Badenoch and Indian commerce minister Piyush Goyal in August 2023 when she was business secretary in Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    UK and India strike trade deal after three years of talks

    Britain makes concessions on Indian access to employment markets in exchange for cuts to tariffs on whisky and cars

    Union and Indian flags hanging near Big Ben in London
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    UK closes in on US trade pact with lower tariff quotas for cars and steel

    London to offer concessions on digital services tax in deal that could be agreed this week

    Robotic arms rivet car panels together at a Jaguar Land Rover facility in Solihull, Birmingham
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Why Britain lacks leverage in tariff talks with the US

    Asymmetry in trade relationship suggests Trump has the upper hand in negotiations

    A montage showing Keir Starmer with his arms folded, and in the background a shipping container being craned
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    European and UK companies lay bare the pain from Trump’s trade war

    Executives warn about the challenges facing businesses and the destabilising effect of prolonged uncertainty

    Montage of shipping containers and Donald Trump holding a document displaying an executive order
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Brexit
    EU set to make it easier for UK professionals to work in the bloc

    Brussels due to propose legislation to enable the recognition of qualifications of British lawyers and others

    EU flags wave in the wind in front of the European Commission building in Brussels
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A tentative reset between Britain and the EU

    Deals this month ought to become the basis for a more ambitious realignment

    Sir Keir Starmer with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    UK fishing
    UK partially broke rules by closing waters to EU sand eel fishing, says tribunal

    Legal wrangle over access is one of most prominent irritants in post-Brexit relations between London and Brussels

    The vessel is surrounded by gannets
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Brexit
    Brussels demands UK fishing rights in return for food standards deal

    Issue is a remaining hurdle in ‘reset’ talks ahead of summit later this month

    Fishermen empty a net filled with fish into a metal container on the deck
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Chris Giles
    Brexit lessons for Trump’s trade war

    Big talk of holding all the cards looks even worse with the benefit of hindsight

    Container ships load and unload at Felixstowe Port, England
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Starmer resists pressure to give MPs a vote on any US-UK trade deal

    Britain hopes to seal trio of trade accords in coming weeks as talks also continue with the EU and India

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and US President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House on February 27
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