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The US had trebled tariffs on the UK from 3.4% to 10%, and the UK has cut its tariffs by two-thirds from 5.1% to 1.8%. It does not seem very "reciprocal".
Indeed.
By maintaining UK food standards and not, for example, accepting hormone treated beef or chlorinated chicken, a "full fat" food and farm export deal with the EU, similar to Switzerland's, is now clearly on the cards in the next fortnight.
Good.
It should never have been a question. I don't know why we even bothered to pretend that we were ever going to make a deal.
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This is great for Northern Ireland. Not only do we have access to both the EU and UK markets with no/minimal customs, but we're also probably the most practical place in the European Customs union to export out of with the "low" 10% tariff rate
This stuff is literally 4D chess
Unless trump is playing. Then it's not even Snakes and Ladders as Donne finds it all too stimulating, and so has to go have a nap
I dunno man, trying to make grown-up real-world political deals with Trump has got to be like herding cats. My hat's off to Starmer, he does seem to know how to play him.