{"id":37815,"date":"2025-04-03T07:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T07:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/uk-ministers-will-respond-to-us-tariffs-with-calm-heads-starmer-tells-business-chiefs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T07:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T07:56:30","slug":"uk-ministers-will-respond-to-us-tariffs-with-calm-heads-starmer-tells-business-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/uk-ministers-will-respond-to-us-tariffs-with-calm-heads-starmer-tells-business-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"UK ministers will respond to US tariffs with \u2018calm heads\u2019, Starmer tells business chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says tariffs will be \u2018a challenge\u2019 but UK is better placed with 10% rate than EU at 20%<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/03\/business-news-live-updates-trump-tarrifs-asian-markets-nikkei-asx-wall-st-dow-jones-dollar-euro\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keir Starmer has told heads of business in Downing Street that \u201cclearly there will be an economic impact\u201d from US tariffs but that ministers would respond with \u201ccool and calm heads\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister gathered senior business figures in No 10 after Donald Trump announced he would introduce 10% blanket tariffs on imports from the UK, and 25% on car imports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/03\/uk-respond-us-tariffs-calm-heads-starmer-business-chiefs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says tariffs will be \u2018a challenge\u2019 but UK is better placed with 10% rate than EU at 20% Business live \u2013 latest updates Keir Starmer has told heads of business in Downing Street that \u201cclearly there will be an economic impact\u201d from US tariffs but that ministers would respond with \u201ccool and calm &#8230; <a title=\"UK ministers will respond to US tariffs with \u2018calm heads\u2019, Starmer tells business chiefs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/uk-ministers-will-respond-to-us-tariffs-with-calm-heads-starmer-tells-business-chiefs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UK ministers will respond to US tariffs with \u2018calm heads\u2019, Starmer tells business chiefs\">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-37815","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\/37815","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=37815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}