President Trump meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday during the visit of the American chief in Scotland. Although it is apparently a private trip, marked by several golf cycles on his own luxury lessons, Trump has also done business – especially by nailing an eternal for a long time US US trade agreement.
After meeting a little over an hour with the leader of the EU Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday, Mr. Trump emerged to say: “We have good news. We have concluded an agreement.”
Considered a combined economy, the EU block is the second largest in the world behind the United States, including goods and services, US trade in the EU is worth around 2 dollars per year.
“I think it’s great that we have entered into an agreement today, instead of playing games,” Trump said about the framework agreement. “I think it’s the biggest matter ever concluded.”
“It’s a big problem, it’s a huge matter,” said Von Der Leyen. “It will bring stability. It will provide predictability.”
President Trump Starmer’s meeting was also to approach trade, although the United States and the United Kingdom has concluded a managerial trade agreement last month. Starmer clearly said he wanted to continue to push Mr. Trump to further facilitate prices on British steel and other imports while the details of the agreement are chopped.
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Managers of the United States and the United Kingdom said that the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine would also present themselves in their discussion on Monday.
Before the meeting, Trump told journalists that he would probably reduce the deadline for 50 days he gave to Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept a cease-fire agreement with Ukraine before imposing new sanctions against Russia.
Trump did not specify how much he would reduce the calendar, but said that he was “very disappointed” from Putin for continuing to attack Ukraine. Russia rejected the deadline When the White House announced it for the first time, the appellant “unacceptable”.
But Trump said that his meeting with Starmer would provide a chance to celebrate the US-UK trade agreement on books, as well as the new EU agreement.
Most governments of the EU member nations expressed their support for this agreement on Monday, although some of them are non -enthusiastically – and the French Prime Minister even took a blow to the block, accusing him of “submission” to Mr. Trump.
Trump said the rate rate for the 27 EU member countries would be 15% for most imports, including vehicles. The EU, on the other hand, has agreed to buy American military equipment, $ 750 billion in American energy and increase its collective investment in the United States by $ 600 billion.
There have been good news for American companies that also sell products on the EU market, because Mr. Trump announced that the 27 EU countries “will be open to trade with the United States in Zero Prics”.
The agreement was concluded at the Luxury Golf Resort in Trump in Turnberry, on the Scottish coast, where the president spent the weekend to turn off.
The agreement avoids a transatlantic trade war which could have taken place on Friday, when Mr. Trump had threatened to impose a price of 30% on all the goods imported from the EU, which had committed to retaliate.
This deadline remains in place for countries that have not yet concluded an agreement with the United States, notably Mexico, Canada, and most, therefore, China.
Trade negotiations between Beijing and Washington took place in Stockholm on Monday, and the US Secretary of Trade Howard Lutnick said in interviews during the weekend that the deadline for August 1 for transactions to be concluded was not flexible.
“No extension, more periods of grace. On August 1, the prices are fixed. They will be set up. Customs will begin to collect money, and we leave,” he said.
