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Trump Hails U.S.-U.K. Trade Agreement as ‘Full and Comprehensive’
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5/8/2025
The United States and the United Kingdom unveiled the broad outlines of a trade agreement Thursday, the first sign of a deal since President Donald Trump imposed across-the-board global tariffs in early April.
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Today's agreement with the UK is the first in a series of agreements on trade that my
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administration has been negotiating over the past four weeks.
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With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness
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is an essential and vital principle of international trade.
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The deal includes billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports,
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especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol, and virtually
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all of the products produced by our great farmers and our secretary, as you know, of agriculture
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is here.
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Brooke, thank you very much.
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Thank you, sir.
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You'll let the farmers know.
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In addition, the UK will reduce or eliminate numerous non-tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated
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against American products.
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But this is now turning out, I think, really to be a great deal for both countries because
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it'll be really great for the UK also.
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So they're opening up the country.
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Their country is a little closed, and we appreciate that.
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They'll also be fast-tracking American goods through their customs process, so our exports
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go to a very, very quick form of approval, and there won't be any red tape.
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Things are going to move very quickly both ways.
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The final details are being written up in the coming weeks.
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We'll have it all very conclusive, but the actual deal is a very conclusive one.
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We think just about everything's been approved.
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So good for both countries.
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This is a very important deal.
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This is going to boost trade between and across our countries.
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It's going to not only protect jobs, but create jobs, opening market access.
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Yes, and as you say, Donald, the timing couldn't be more apt because not only was it 80 years
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ago today that victory came for Europe after and at the end of the Second World War, but
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of course on that day the UK and the US stood together as the closest of allies.
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And Donald, I think even down to the hour, because you may or may not know that it was about this time of day,
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exactly 80 years ago that Winston Churchill announced victory in Europe, and that led to great celebrations
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across Europe, across America, but particularly in the United Kingdom.
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Literally people going out into the street, putting bunting up, going up to the palace, and so
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to be able to announce this great deal on the same day, 80 years forward, almost at the same
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hour, and as we were 80 years ago with the UK and the US standing side by side, I think
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is incredibly important and makes this truly historic.
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That close relationship has endured over those 80 years, as you know, Donald, when it comes
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to defence and security and intelligence sharing, of course.
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There are no two countries that are closer than our two countries, and now we take this
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into new and important territory by adding trade and the economy to the closeness of our relationship.
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