UK trade with the United States

UK trade with the United States

President Trump formally announced a range of tariffs on imports of goods to the United States on 2 April 2025, with imports from the UK subject to a blanket 10% tariff and imports of steel and aluminium, and cars and car parts subject to a higher 25% tariff. On 8 May 2025 the UK government announced the signing of a trade deal between the United States and the UK.

United States exempts UK aerospace sector from tariffs

United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Rolls-Royce will be able to sell its engines to Boeing tariff-free, as will other United Kingdom-based aircraft parts manufacturers. The UK "sells Rolls-Royce engines to Boeing," Lutnick said during a May 8 televised media briefing from the Oval Office. "We've agreed to let Rolls-Royce engines and those kind of plane parts come over tariff-free." The deal was part of broader tariff negotiation…

Author: Feng Xiaopeng Wang Yimei On April 3, 2025, the United States launched a trade protectionist measure of uniformly imposing a 10% basic tariff on a wide range of countries and regions, and increasing the corresponding "reciprocal tariffs" for countries and regions with large trade deficits with the United States, represented by China, and imposing an additional 34% "reciprocal tariff" on goods originating from China. On the same day, it wa…