{"id":37267,"date":"2025-03-28T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/down-to-the-wire-inside-the-uks-crunch-talks-with-the-us-as-it-bids-to-avoid-trump-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:28:50","slug":"down-to-the-wire-inside-the-uks-crunch-talks-with-the-us-as-it-bids-to-avoid-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/down-to-the-wire-inside-the-uks-crunch-talks-with-the-us-as-it-bids-to-avoid-trump-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Down to the wire\u2019: inside the UK\u2019s crunch talks with the US as it bids to avoid Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers seek carve-out from import taxes before 2 April deadline \u2013 but critics believe they may have offered too many concessions<\/p>\n<p>UK ministers and senior officials at every level are holding talks with US counterparts this weekend in a last-ditch effort to secure a carve-out from swingeing import taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Government sources said ministers were raising Donald Trump\u2019s looming tariffs as the \u201cNo 1\u201d issue in every conversation with the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/mar\/28\/uk-talks-us-trump-tariffs-import-taxes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers seek carve-out from import taxes before 2 April deadline \u2013 but critics believe they may have offered too many concessions UK ministers and senior officials at every level are holding talks with US counterparts this weekend in a last-ditch effort to secure a carve-out from swingeing import taxes. Government sources said ministers were raising &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Down to the wire\u2019: inside the UK\u2019s crunch talks with the US as it bids to avoid Trump tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/down-to-the-wire-inside-the-uks-crunch-talks-with-the-us-as-it-bids-to-avoid-trump-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Down to the wire\u2019: inside the UK\u2019s crunch talks with the US as it bids to avoid Trump tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}