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UK hopes for metal and pharma cope with US by July
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UK hopes for metal and pharma cope with US by July

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By Tycoon Herald 6 Min Read Published June 17, 2025
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Sir Keir Starmer will ship his prime enterprise adviser to Washington subsequent week in a bid to resolve the excellent commerce points surrounding metal and prescription drugs between the 2 nations, with hopes in London of an settlement in early July.

Varun Chandra will be part of UK embassy commerce consultants in Washington for talks on metal, aluminium and medical medicine, after Donald Trump selected Monday to log out tariff cuts for British carmakers and aerospace corporations underneath the US-UK commerce deal.

Whereas Trump’s shut relationship with Starmer has been instrumental to progress, British officers say {that a} key interlocutor on the main points has been Howard Lutnick, the billionaire businessman and US commerce secretary.

“Lutnick has come under some criticism in the US, but we have found him reasonable, engaged and a constructive counterpart in negotiations,” stated one UK official. “He has worked at pace.”

Nevertheless, the hardest a part of the talks lies forward, with particulars to be agreed on metal and pharma tariffs.

On Monday, Trump described the US-UK relationship as “fantastic” earlier than brandishing a doc confirming on the G7 summit in Canada {that a} deal on vehicles and plane elements had been concluded. 

Starmer needed to decide up the doc as a gust of wind blew it out of Trump’s folder, in an look that confirmed the unlikely chemistry between the 2 leaders. “He’s slightly more liberal than I am, to put it mildly,” Trump quipped.

Requested if he may assure that the UK could be protected against future tariffs Trump replied: “The UK is very well protected. You know why? Because I like them.”

Sir Keir Starmer picked up the doc as a gust of wind blew it out of Donald Trump’s folder on Monday © Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Trump’s government order will “operationalise” final month’s US-UK deal, reducing a 27.5 per cent US tariff on vehicles to 10 per cent for the primary 100,000 automobiles shipped from the UK annually. The deal may also spare UK exports and jet engines and different aerospace tariffs from US tariffs.

However British officers are nonetheless negotiating over the metal and aluminium provisions, with uncertainty over whether or not it might cowl Britain’s largest metal producer Tata.

After closing its two blast furnaces at Port Talbot final 12 months, Tata has been importing metal from its sister crops in India and the Netherlands for processing within the UK to then ship to clients. Nevertheless, this might breach US guidelines that require all metal to be “melted and poured” within the nation from which it’s imported. 

Gareth Stace, director-general of commerce physique UK Metal, stated it was trying “forward to imminently benefiting from a tariff rate cut similar to that which the automotive and aerospace industries will enjoy in seven days”. 

Chandra, a former managing associate of Hakluyt, a London-based consultancy, has been charged by Starmer with bringing the talks to a conclusion, working with key US embassy commerce consultants Mungo Woodifield and Kirsty McVicar.

TaTa Steel in Port Talbot, South Wales
Tata shut its blast furnaces at Port Talbot final 12 months, shifting metal manufacturing abroad © Gareth Iwan Jones/FT

The British aspect admits that talks on metal with the US aspect, additionally involving US commerce consultant Jamieson Greer, are “tricky” however officers say they’re “reasonably confident we will get there” by the primary week of July.

Metal producers in the remainder of the world are contending with a 50 per cent levy on their exports to the US after Trump doubled the prevailing 25 per cent levy this month — although he supplied the UK an exemption to permit time for the implementation of the commerce deal.

The US-UK commerce deal is supposed to decrease American tariffs on British metal and aluminium tariffs to zero.

Trump’s government order on Monday additionally stated the US would negotiate with the UK over any potential American pharmaceutical tariffs that will apply. “We’ve got a bit of work to do on that,” stated one British official.

Starmer’s potential to make progress on a commerce cope with the US — the place others have failed — is seen in London partly as a mirrored image of the unlikely however apparently sturdy relationship between the prime minister and Trump, together with their groups.

However there may be additionally a view that Trump needs to point out the remainder of the world that he’s keen to do a cope with “reasonable” companions. “It’s a sign to the EU, Japan, South Korea and others that he’s willing to a do a balanced deal,” stated one UK official.

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