Great Britain could conclude a reduced trade agreement with the United States in a few months, the last politician to supervise negotiations with the administration of Donald Trump on a British-American agreement told Sky News.
Last night, Sky News revealed that the main members of the Trump administration think that a trade agreement with the United Kingdom could be sealed in a few months.
Mr. Trump has Signified Keir Starmer for praise And suggested that he wanted to change British trade policy.
Last policy: Billions to spend to increase state pension
Great Britain negotiated a complete free trade agreement with Mr. Asset During his first presidency, but it was Jondi by his successor President Biden.
The negotiations were supervised by the secretary of conservative trade at the time, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who told Sky News that an agreement could even be concluded with the United States before the conclusion of trade and cooperation of UE-UK.
Ms. Trevelyan said that around half of the work on an agreement had already been concluded as part of the Boris Johnson administration.
“I was the trade secretary just at the end of the first Trump administration, and we had already made discussions, probably halfway there. In terms of commercial negotiations. »»
She said the United States can work faster than the EU on commercial negotiations, and this could be concluded first.
The former commercial secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan. Pic: Reuters
“I absolutely think it is possible. I think the challenge with anything with the EU is that you are dealing, you know, several countries that must all agree. And the challenge with any trade agreement, which is why TCA took a long time to negotiate at the level that we have obtained, is that everyone draws a little differently. »»
On the style of President Trump, she said: “I think, realistic, because of the way Trump works, which is transactional but very determined, he will make decisions, major decisions.”
The negotiation between the United Kingdom and the United States began in May 2020 when Liz Truss was secretary to trade and lasted until the end of Mr. Trump in January 2021. From September 2021 to September 2022.
Up to five chapters – commercial negotiation areas – had been completed, but agriculture and the most difficult trade, had not been sorted.
The United States has different food standards for the United Kingdom and the EU, and is unable to sell on our market-which has already been a great demand.
Last trump:: The EU would respond “per hour” to Trump prices
However, Ms. Trevelyan said that omission of agriculture in the agreement could pass him out, provided that there have been other sufficient victories for the United States.
She said that the trade agreement of the United Kingdom and the United States could make a big difference.
“A commercial decision of the United Kingdom will be a major trade agreement, impactful and varying,” she said.
👉Listen to politics at Jack and Sam on your podcast👈 application
“I think what is important is what are we good in?” What is the United Kingdom for? What do we want to do more? Our financial services, only in the world in the United States, are fantastic.
“(You are looking for) many things where we do not crush. Really important for success in a commercial agreement is the place where you get this complementarity.
“What have the United States that they want to sell us who you know, don’t worry us?” So, some of the conversations with California around some of their nuts and properties like that, there are all kinds of different pull -ups and pushes that you work together as a whole. »»
She continued: “That will be all, from financial services to whiskey and everything else. The market is enormous important problems concerning metals, steel and aluminum which are really important. Thus, we had been taken, when I had just participated, in fact a price of the EU the last time that President Trump put prices on the people around aluminum in steel. »»
But Lord Kim Darroch, the United Kingdom Ambassador to the United States at Donald Trump’s first presidency, said he was skeptical about a British-American trade agreement.
Talk to Sophy Ridge on Hub policyLord Darroch said that the UK’s problems come from the fact that food and agriculture standards are higher here than in the United States.
He explained that there are “two major regulatory regimes” in the world, one being the EU and the other being America.
“For the moment, we are still mainly aligned with the EU,” he said.
“One of the objectives of the Americans would be to attract us into their regulation system,” he adds, and – since we are doing more more trade with Europe than America – “I don’t see Not that it is in the national interest. ”