Care Starmer focuses on trade talks in the United States to reduce a 25 % tariff on cars in the UK

Sir Kerr Starmer has diverted his focus in the US trade talks to reduce the 25 percent tariff on British cars, admitting that he does not know whether he could persuade Donald Trump of his new tariffs by 10 percent on all British imports.

Starmer’s commercial strategy was thrown into the air by a 10 percent “baseline” tariff for Trump, leaving him an exhibition of political opponents that his attempt to “appease” the American president has failed.

The Prime Minister, who claims to have built a good relationship with Trump, has not spoken to the US president since the announcement of the customs tariff on April 2.

The American “economic partnership” and the United Kingdom that Starmer seeks has not yet been fulfilled. Trump insisted last week that the UK Prime Minister was “very happy” with the 10 percent tax imposed on imports from Britain.

Starmer’s allies admit that Trump and his team have “their eyes elsewhere”, where they face market turmoil and calls from nations that reach a much larger tariff, including allies in East Asia.

One of the British officials said he would be “difficult” to persuade Trump to cut the UK’s tariff by 10 percent, but he added: “When it comes to 25 percent on cars, there is more optimism.”

Trump imposed a 25 percent global tariff on imported cars, which will significantly affect the UK car sector. Cars are the largest export element in the United Kingdom to the United States, where sales of 6.4 billion pounds.

The American commercial actor, Jameson Jarir, said on Wednesday that the talks with the United Kingdom “equally”, but suggested that there are still major issues to solve them. He said that the long -term conflict over “non -fire barriers” in agriculture was “very important to us.”

Britain prohibits the import of beef and chicken in the United States, which was washed hormones in chlorine, to the anger of American farmers. Jarir said there are many discussions with British officials. He said: “This has been clarified to them.”

British negotiators are once again viewing what they are ready to present to the United States, given their previous efforts to save the United Kingdom from definitions.

“Our original offer was presented on the table when we had no idea of ​​what was coming. The Americans want to look at everything again. When the facts change, look at what this means to everything else,” said UK’s official.

Britain offered to rewrite the digital sales tax-which affects American technology companies-reduced customs tariffs on some meat and seafood products, while also seeking to obtain closer cooperation in technology and artificial intelligence. It has refused to reduce the dining standards system.

UK officials refused to say how the British offer “changes”, but they said that there is no doubt about rewriting the online safety law to meet concerns about freedom of expression from the American technology sector.

“See, I don’t know. We are negotiating and hope to improve the situation,” Starmer, who asked him on Wednesday by ITV News.

UK officials said British trade negotiators are still talking to their American counterparts about a commercial deal, but Starmer allies did not expect any imminent boom. One of them said: “There is no clear deadline on the American side.”

People close to Starmer’s allies insist that Britain could have slapped a tariff above 10 percent – and it may have been imposed 20 percent against the European Union – if it was not a matter of the relationship that Starmer formulated with Trump in recent months.

However, Trump imposed his global fees on the basis of the American trade deficit account with each country. Both countries that have balanced trade relations, such as the United Kingdom, have been subjected to 10 percent of Trump.

On Wednesday afternoon, Trump announced a temporary stop for 90 days on the upper tariffs of the countries that were not lacked, but left at the foundation place.

Andrew Griffiths, conservative Minister of Business and Trade in the shadow, said: “This is not special.”

“The ministers have tried everything to satisfy Donald Trump – even with the fall of the online safety laws and the reduction of taxes on Elon Musk and other technical billionaires,” Sir Ed Davi, the liberal democratic leader, told the Financial Times.

“But the recovery never works with the infiltrators and has not succeeded with Trump. We have to deal with Trump from the position of strength and this means combining our European and Commonwealth allies in an economic alliance to prepare.”

British officials insist that the United Kingdom is still “at the forefront of the waiting list” to make a trade deal with the United States, but Starmer has pledged that it would not be a deal at any cost. The local political consequences to overcome Trump’s demands can be great.

The US President gave an insight into how to see such commercial talks on Tuesday when he told the Republican Party dinner: “I tell you, these countries invite us, kiss my ass. They are dying to conclude a deal.”

To complicate matters, Starmer has already launched the largest diplomatic shot: he conveyed a message from King Charles to the US President to travel to Britain on a second visit to the state.

Royal officials said that the offer was fully known about the potential risks and suggestions that the state’s visit can be canceled, given the risk of relying on the monarch in a political rank.

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