Trump poised to lower tariffs on UK cars within days, minister indicates

The US is poised to start lowering its tariffs on some British products within days, the UK trade secretary has indicated.

- Eleni Courea

Jonathan Reynolds told reporters the US was expected to slash its tariffs on British cars "very soon" after "a very significant week" of talks.

Reynolds and Keir Starmer met Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, for talks on Tuesday evening where they raised the implementation of the US-UK trade deal.

"Secretary Lutnick and I, and the prime minister, talked specifically about the execution of the automotive tariff reduction... which is part of our deal," Reynolds said. "I'm hoping to be able to update you all on that very soon."

Asked whether he expected the tariff reductions to begin this week, he said: "I'm very hopeful. It was a specific area of conversation on Tuesday in that bilateral meeting. We are ready to go on our side... as soon as the president and White House are able to on their side."

Following the meeting Lutnick posted on X that trade quotas on British cars and American beef and ethanol would be implemented "within days".

Peter Mandelson, the UK ambassador to Washington, raised the implementation of the deal again at a meeting with Trump on Wednesday.