President Trump Inks Trade Agreement with the United Kingdom, previews commercial negotiations with China
President Donald Trump and his administration signed a major trade agreement with the United Kingdom on Thursday and concluded the week preparing for commercial discussions with China this weekend.
The details of the specific commercial plan with the United Kingdom are rare, but the agreement maintains the 10% existing prices in place against British products while removing certain import taxes on articles such as steel and cars.
“With this agreement, the United Kingdom joins the United States to affirm that reciprocity and equity are an essential and vital principle of international trade,” said Trump on Thursday. “The agreement includes billions of dollars of increased access to the market for American exports, especially in agriculture, considerably increasing access for American beef, ethanol and almost all products produced by our large farmers.”
Trump reports that China “ a lot '' interested in concluding a trade agreement before negotiations in Switzerland
President Donald Trump as well as vice-president JD Vance and Peter Mandelson, British ambassador to the United States, third on the left, listen to Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Great Britain is talking about the Oval Bureau of the White House Oval on May 8, 2025, after the announcement of the British trade agreement of Trump. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
The agreement is the first historic commercial negotiation signed after the release day, when Trump announced widespread prices for several countries on April 2 at a rate range.
The administration then adjusted its initial proposal and announced on April 9 that it would immediately impose a tariff of 145% on Chinese products, while reducing reciprocal rates on other countries for 90 days to a basic line of 10%. China responded by increasing the prices on American products at 125%.
Trump also made it possible to understand commercial negotiations with China, given that the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to launch commercial negotiations with China in Switzerland on Saturday.
“Scott will go to Switzerland, meet China,” Trump told journalists on Thursday in the White House. “And you know, they want to do a lot of agreement. We can all play games. Who made the first call, who did not make them? It doesn't matter. Only, what is happening in this room. But I will tell you that China wants to do a lot. We will see how it works.”
Here is what also happened this week:
Meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada
Trump also doubled his interest in extending the United States during a Tuesday visit with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Trump regularly said he wanted Canada to become an American state and discussed the acquisition of Greenland and the Panama Canal for safety purposes. However, Canada's question is not open to negotiations, said Carney.
“Having met the owners of Canada during the campaign in recent months, it is not for sale,” Carney said in the White House on Tuesday. “I will never be to sell, but the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together. We have done so in the past, and part of this, as the president has just said, concerns our security, and my government is committed for a change of steps in our investment in Canadian security and our partnership.”
Carney says Canada is not for sale, Trump answers “ never say ''
President Donald Trump meets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the White House Oval Office in Washington on May 6, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)
While Trump acknowledged that Canada increased its investment in military security, it said: “Never say” in response to Canada becoming another state.
“I had a lot, a lot of things that were not achievable, and they ended up being doable,” said Trump.
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Meeting with the ballet dancer released from Russian prison
Trump also met the dancer of the Russian-American ballet, Ksenia Karelina, in the White House on Monday. Karelina experienced a 12-year sentence in a Russian criminal colony for betrayal in 2024, but the Trump administration negotiated his return to the United States during an exchange of American-Russian prisoner in April.
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The main director of the fight against terrorism Sebastian Gorka takes a photo of the American-Russian ballet dancer Ksenia Karelina and her boyfriend, the South African boxer Chris Van Heerden, with Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, after the release of Karelina from Russia on April 10, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)
“Mr. Trump, I am so much, so grateful for you to take myself home and from (the) American government. And I have never felt more blessed to be American, and I am so happy to go home,” said Karelina in a video published by Trump's assistant, Sebastian Gorka, April 11 back to the United States in the United States in the United States
Karelina, a resident of Los Angeles born in Russia, was arrested in 2024 during a trip to visit her family in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Russia Federal Security Service arrested her after inspected her phone and found a donation to an American charity that supports Ukraine.
Emma Colton of Fox News contributed to this report.
