Posted on 05/27/2025 9:48:14 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
British officials are working to negotiate down Donald Trump’s 10 percent tariffs on British exports, Peter Mandelson, the U.K.’s ambassador to Washington, said Tuesday.
Earlier this month Prime Minister Keir Starmer became the first world leader to reach a deal with Trump to lower the White House’s 25 percent tariffs on car, steel and aluminum imports into the U.S.
Yet the deal failed to lower the 10 percent baseline tariffs Trump announced in April.
“We need to address [the reciprocal tariffs] and we’re agreed to do so,” Mandelson told an Atlantic Council event.
Washington and London “can build on” the deal that they’ve agreed, Mandelson said, using it to open the door to a technology partnership between the two countries.
In negotiating down Trump’s 10 percent baseline tariffs the two sides are looking at non-tariff barriers, Mandelson said.
“I think this is a source of irritation to the president,” he added. As a former EU trade commissioner, “I can understand his frustration.”
Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds insisted when the deal was unveiled that Britain’s digital services tax had not been touched in the talks. But it was not immediately clear that it would remain untouched in future talks.
“Everything’s on the table,” said one U.K. official when asked about digital services tax in early May. “If it’s something fantastically attractive … if the sum that goes into the deal outweighs what goes with the digital services tax, then let’s do it.”
British businesses are still awaiting clarity on when the steel, aluminum and auto tariffs will be lifted.
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What part of baseline 10% for all countries do they not understand?
“using it to open the door to a technology partnership between the two countries.”
What do we get? Crappy electronics? New censorship technology?
Ten percent is good enough for God, then it’s good enough for the US...........
Big Brother.
Open up your markets to US goods with zero tariffs and we will reciprocate.
For the first time in its 29-year polling history, Rasmussen shows that 50 percent of the country believes America is on the right track, compared to 45 percent who say we are on the wrong track.
Right Track Number Hits 50% for First Time in Poll History
Breitbart ^
“Holy crap – it happened!” Rasmussen’s Mark Mitchell announced on X, adding: “For the first time in our polling history, A MAJORITY says the country is on the right track.”
He added, “Don’t F it up, Republicans.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com …
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y5ZexSyx_gtk9Sk7Zd9WtiYd4Kiq85XD-uJbMoOlHtE/edit?tab=t.0
Posted on 5/27/2025, 10:06:13 AM by hotsteppa
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Yeah, get MI6 out of our lives and we’ll give them 9.99%.
Chuck is there to support the Deep States screwing them all into extinction.
We rebelled against the Royal Family 250 years ago. We had a good reason.
“Open up your markets to US goods with zero tariffs and we will reciprocate.”
Very few Brits drive American size cars.
Congress needs to set trade rules.
Slowly increasing to 25% tariffs should be placed on strategic goods and stuff that can be made by machine in the USA.
On other goods, the tariff should be a function of the source country wage structure, the overall US trade deficit, and the US source country trade deficit.
The US should have a 10% money export tax. That would get revenue not only from goods but remittances and foreign travel.
The goal should be international financial balance.
People in Honduras should be able to get jobs there and not take ours.
Fairness is not enough. Most foreigners are playing by their rules.
Zero tariff should not be a goal because we don’t want an American to lose a job because some foreigner will work for 1% less.
Cars aren’t the only thing we can sell.
Trump isn’t going along with their $45 a barrel for oil. The whole EU sanction regime is falling apart; the US isn’t keen on the EU policy over Ukraine.
UK is almost totally responsible for Christopher Steel and the MI6 involvement, and Starmers 300 plus English British civil servants flying over to the US to openly assist the Biden campaign during the election and especially on election night - maybe those 300 where working on rerouting the IP addresses that didn’t exist in 2020 back to MI6 servers so they work another election steal. England has never been Trump’s friend. They are opposed to his Ukraine efforts.
Trump has pretty much said he is going to punish Britian with Tariffs for all the trouble they have been responsible for in past 9.5 years.
The USA runs a trade surplus against the UK
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