{"id":37709,"date":"2025-04-02T10:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/uk-wont-engage-in-kneejerk-response-to-trump-tariffs-says-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:16:19","slug":"uk-wont-engage-in-kneejerk-response-to-trump-tariffs-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/uk-wont-engage-in-kneejerk-response-to-trump-tariffs-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UK won\u2019t engage in \u2018kneejerk\u2019 response to Trump tariffs, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget Phillipson warns of \u2018difficult period\u2019 ahead for trade, but government \u2018working through every eventuality\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/trump-new-tariffs-liberation-day\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/apr\/02\/keir-starmer-pmqs-us-tariffs-donald-trump-latest-live-uk-politics-news\">UK politics live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK government will not engage in a \u201ckneejerk\u201d response to any tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, as it warned there would be a \u201cdifficult period\u201d ahead in trade relations with the US and called for calm.<\/p>\n<p>The US president is to announce his latest round of tariffs on Wednesday \u2013 which he has called \u201cliberation day\u201d \u2013 sparking concerns over a global trade war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/apr\/02\/uk-response-trump-tariffs-trade-relations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget Phillipson warns of \u2018difficult period\u2019 ahead for trade, but government \u2018working through every eventuality\u2019 Business live \u2013 latest updates UK politics live The UK government will not engage in a \u201ckneejerk\u201d response to any tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, as it warned there would be a \u201cdifficult period\u201d ahead in trade relations with the &#8230; <a title=\"UK won\u2019t engage in \u2018kneejerk\u2019 response to Trump tariffs, says minister\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/uk-wont-engage-in-kneejerk-response-to-trump-tariffs-says-minister\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UK won\u2019t engage in \u2018kneejerk\u2019 response to Trump tariffs, says minister\">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-37709","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\/37709","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=37709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}