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Jennifer Meierhans

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The UK and the US have reached a deal over tariffs on some goods traded between the countries.

President Donald Trump’s blanket 10% tariffs on imports from countries around the world still applies to most UK goods entering the US.

But the deal has reduced or removed tariffs on some of the UK’s exports, including cars, steel and aluminium.

Here’s an at-a-glance look at what’s in the deal.

This isn’t a trade deal

Trump declared on social media this announcement would be a “major trade deal” – it’s not.

He does not have the authority to sign the type of free-trade agreement India and the UK finalised earlier this week – this lies with Congress.

Congress would need to approve a trade agreement, which would take longer than the 90-day pause in place on some of Trump’s tariffs.

This is an agreement which has reversed or cut some of those tariffs on specific goods.

It is only the bare bones of a narrow agreement, there will be months of negotiations and legal paperwork to follow.

Car tariffs cut to 10%

Trump had placed import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts coming into the US on top of the existing 2.5%.

This has been cut to 10% for a maximum of 100,000 UK cars, which matches the number of cars the UK exported last year.

But any cars exported above that quota will be subject to a 27.5% import tax.

Cars are the UK’s biggest export to the US – worth about £9bn last year.

Jaguar Land Rover, which exports almost a quarter of its cars to the US, said the deal “secures greater certainty for our sector”.

But car industry leaders have told the BBC the quota could effectively put a ceiling on the number they can export competitively.

The UK currently imposes a 10% levy on US car imports, but it is not clear if there is any change to this.

The US has previously demanded the tax be cut to 2.5%, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves had indicated she is open to such a cut.

Trump also announced that Rolls-Royce engines and plane parts will be able to be exported from the UK to the US tariff-free.

No tariffs on steel and aluminium

A 25% tariff on steel and aluminium imports into the US that came into effect in March has been scrapped.

This is good news for firms such as British Steel which was brought under government control as it struggled to stay operational.

However, the White House said it would impose a quota on the “most favoured nation rates for UK steel and aluminium and certain derivative steel and aluminium products.”

It is currently unclear how much of these products the UK will be able to export to the US under this quota system without paying more.

It is also unclear whether the scrapping of tariffs will apply to steel derivative products and whether only steel melted and poured in the UK will benefit.

The UK exports a relatively small amount of steel and aluminium to the US, about £700m in total.

However, the tariffs also cover products made with steel and aluminium, including things such as gym equipment, furniture and machinery.

These are worth much more, about £2.2bn, or about 5% of UK exports to the US last year.

Industry body Steel UK said there were “a number hoops to jump through before the UK steel sector can see the benefits of this deal”.

It said firms needed to know what supply chain conditions need to be met, what the quotas are and when they take effect.

Pharmaceuticals still the big unknown

What will be agreed on pharmaceuticals is still unknown with the UK saying work would continue on this and the remaining reciprocal tariffs.

The US said both countries would “promptly negotiate significantly preferential treatment outcomes on pharmaceuticals”.

Pharmaceuticals are a major export for the UK when it comes to US trade – last year sales of these products were worth £6.6bn making it the UK’s second-biggest export to the US.

It’s also America’s fourth biggest export to the UK, valued at £4bn last year.

Most countries, including the US, imposed few or no tariffs on finished drugs, as part of an agreement aimed at keeping medicines affordable.

The president has not announced any trade restrictions on medicines yet.

No change on digital services tax

There was no change to the UK’s 2% digital services tax in this deal and it appears to be a sticking point.

Businesses that run social media, search engines or online marketplaces have to pay it if they receive more than £500m in global revenues and £25m from UK users annually.

But this threshold is easily met by US tech giants like Meta, Google, Apple.

The UK reportedly netted nearly £360m from American tech firms via the tax in its first year.

The UK government said it had “agreed to work on a digital trade deal”.

But the US government said it was “disappointed that the UK was unwilling to agree to fully address the tax.

“It is discriminatory, unjustified, and should be removed promptly,” it said.

No drop to food standards

US beef exports to the UK had been subject to a 20% tariff within a quota of 1,000 metric tons. The UK has scrapped this tariff and raised the quota to 13,000 metric tonnes, according to the White House document.

In return, the UK has been given a tariff-free quota for 13,000 metric tonnes of exports, which trade ministers said was the “first time” British farmers had been given this kind of deal.

Crucially, there will be no weakening of UK food standards on imports as part of this deal, the UK government statement said.

Many American farmers use growth hormones as a standard part of their beef production, something that was banned in the UK and the European Union in the 1980s.

The US has previously pushed for a relaxation of rules for its agricultural products, including beef from cattle that have been given growth hormones.

This is an area where the UK has chosen alignment with EU – and the forthcoming “Brexit reset” with the EU – over the US.

The tariff on ethanol coming into the UK from the US has also been scrapped.

The National Farmers Union said the inclusion of “a significant volume of bioethanol [a renewable fuel made from crops] in the deal raises concerns for British arable farmers”.



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