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Britain strikes first deal to cut Trump tariffs

Farmers welcome no weakening of import standards in US-UK deal

The United States and Britain will announce a deal to lower tariffs on some goods on Thursday, the first such agreement since U.S. President Donald Trump sparked a global trade war with universal levies.









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China says it will ignore US ‘tariff numbers game’

China will pay no attention if the United States continues to play the “tariff numbers game”, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, after the White House outline how China faces tariffs of up to 245 per cent due to its retaliatory actions.