{"id":66992,"date":"2026-02-22T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/uk-in-talks-with-us-over-best-possible-deal-for-british-firms-amid-higher-tariffs-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:57:03","slug":"uk-in-talks-with-us-over-best-possible-deal-for-british-firms-amid-higher-tariffs-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/uk-in-talks-with-us-over-best-possible-deal-for-british-firms-amid-higher-tariffs-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"UK in talks with US over \u2018best possible deal\u2019 for British firms amid higher tariffs threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business leaders expect UK to \u2018double down\u2019 on deal announced by Donald Trump and Keir Starmer in 2025<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/22\/trump-trade-war-risks-undermining-his-hopes-of-hefty-us-interest-rate-cuts-tariffs\">Graeme Wearden: Trump\u2019s trade war risks undermining his hopes of hefty US interest rate cuts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>High-level talks with the US administration over the threat of increased tariffs are under way as the UK government says it wants \u201cthe best possible deal\u201d for UK companies.<\/p>\n<p>Business leaders said they expected the UK to \u201cdouble down\u201d on the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/us-uk-economic-prosperity-deal-epd\">Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD)<\/a> \u2013 announced by Donald Trump and Keir Starmer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/may\/08\/trump-and-starmer-confirm-breakthrough-us-uk-trade-deal\">May last year<\/a> \u2013 rather than walk away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/22\/uk-in-talks-with-us-over-best-possible-deal-for-british-firms-amid-higher-tariffs-threat-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business leaders expect UK to \u2018double down\u2019 on deal announced by Donald Trump and Keir Starmer in 2025 Graeme Wearden: Trump\u2019s trade war risks undermining his hopes of hefty US interest rate cuts High-level talks with the US administration over the threat of increased tariffs are under way as the UK government says it wants &#8230; <a title=\"UK in talks with US over \u2018best possible deal\u2019 for British firms amid higher tariffs threat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/uk-in-talks-with-us-over-best-possible-deal-for-british-firms-amid-higher-tariffs-threat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UK in talks with US over \u2018best possible deal\u2019 for British firms amid higher tariffs threat\">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-66992","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\/66992","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=66992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}