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The United States signed a first customs agreement with the United Kingdom

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President Donald Trump, with the vice-president, JD Vance, and the British ambassador to the States, Peter Mandelson (right), in the Oval Blanche office, in Washington, on May 8, 2025. Jim Watson / AFP

A rain of laudatory adjectives, a celebration without restraint. But behind the relief are emerging from the modest results. Thus, the staging of the sketch of trade agreements between the United States and the United States, announced by the American president, Donald Trump, in the Oval Office, sums up. Surrounded by vice-president, JD Vance, and the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lungick, in charge of this negotiation, the of State supported his intercom. The voice of the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, then raised himself, to greet a journalists before the journalists “Incredible platform for the future” and an agreement “Totally historical”. Strange staged, largely improvised, which gave an idea of ​​the eagerness of the two leaders to conclude.

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Since the Trump administration has baptized the “Liberation Day” or “Liberation Day” on April 2, and the massive, and largely incoherent, of customs duties on imports of almost all countries in the -then suspended for eighty days-, the United States was under pressure.

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