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Inside No 10 scramble to avoid trade war chaos with deals across US states
2025-04-25 20:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
The UK is considering new trade deals with individual US states, as it scrambles to restore trade relationships with American partners.America is Britains single largest trading partner, representing nearly a fifth of total British trade worth around 315bn.But the relationship is in turmoil as Donald Trump ramps up his trade war, hitting the UK with 10 per cent tariffs and even higher levies on its all-important car industry.Over the past three years, Britain has been quietly developing trade relationships with individual US states to pave the way for a possible formal trade agreement with the White House.As Trump rips up the rulebook on international trade, setting back hopes of a nation-to-nation trade deal, could these state-level links save the special relationship?Deals from east coast to west coastThe UK has signed nine agreements with US states since 2022, introducing memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington...
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