Could Trump’s UK deal start a golden age of free trade?

Trump’s Announced “Concept of Plan” With UK Must Be Made Public

Following Trump’s much-hyped announcement of a trade deal with the United Kingdom, Melinda St. Louis, Global Trade Watch Director at Public Citizen, issued the following statement: “Trump may have enjoyed having his ego stroked by Starmer and Lutnick fawning over him for ‘closing’ a deal – one that is obviously not actually done – but his con on American workers continues. “The American and British people need to see whatever text there is or is…

Could Trump’s UK deal start a golden age of free trade?

We had the shock of ‘Liberation day’ when punitive tariffs were levied on imports from virtually every country in the world. That was the destructive part of Donald Trump’s trade war. Now we enter phase two: trying to put things back together again. The announcement of trade deal with a ‘big and highly-respected country’ (believed