Starmer stresses 'calm' approach

THE UK was right not to retalijate against Donald Trump's tariffs, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted yesterday, as a pause on the trade tax means other nations now face the same low rate as Britain.

- PRESS ASSOCIATION REPORTERS

Most countries now face a 10% rate on importing goods to America, after the United States President temporarily halted the sweeping retaliatory tariffs which had sent global markets into turmoil.

The 10% rate was the lowest rate Mr Trump announced last week on his “Liberation Day”, as he set out plans apparently aimed at rebalancing American trade with other nations, But his snap decision late on Wednesday to halt all reciprocal levies in favour of the single rate means that even trade partners such as the European Union, which had voted to retaliate against America, now face the same costs as the UK.