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US vice-president JD Vance has stated there’s a “good chance” of Washington and London clinching a “great agreement” on commerce, injecting new hope into bilateral negotiations.
Britain was singled out by Vance as more likely to obtain extra agreeable buying and selling phrases on account of President Donald Trump’s affection for the nation and wider, long-standing cultural hyperlinks between the UK and US.
“The president really loves the United Kingdom. He loved the Queen. He admires and loves the King. It is a very important relationship. And he’s a businessman and has a number of important business relationships in [Britain],” Vance advised the UnHerd web site in an interview printed on Tuesday.
Vance stated the connection between the UK and US ran “much deeper than that”, nonetheless, underscored by a “real cultural affinity” as a result of “fundamentally America is an Anglo country”.
He stated the US administration was “certainly working very hard” with the federal government of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on a commerce settlement. “I think there’s a good chance that, yes, we’ll come to a great agreement that’s in the best interest of both countries.”
Starmer has been vying to safe an “economic prosperity deal” with the US, however his commerce technique with America was derailed when Trump unveiled 10 per cent “baseline” tariffs on all UK exports on so-called liberation day on April 2.
Whereas the 2 leaders have constructed a rapport, they haven’t spoken because the US president first unveiled his tariff schedule — or subsequently paused essentially the most punitive charges on the 60 nations he deemed the “worst offenders” when it comes to their commerce practices in the direction of America.
The UK prime minister final week pivoted to concentrate on getting the US to chop the 25 per cent tariff on British automobiles, admitting he didn’t know if he may persuade Trump to abolish his new 10 per cent tariff on all British imports.
Vance in contrast the balanced UK-US commerce relationship favourably with America’s commerce deficit with Germany, Europe’s greatest financial system.
“With the United Kingdom, we have a much more reciprocal relationship than we have with, say, Germany . . . While we love the Germans, they are heavily dependent on exporting to the United States but are pretty tough on a lot of American businesses that would like to export into Germany,” he stated.
Vance predicted that Washington would negotiate “a lot of positive trade relationships with Europe” and insisted he seen Europe as an “ally” of America. “We just want it to be an alliance where Europeans are a little more independent, and our security and trade relationships are gonna reflect that.”
