Yvette Cooper, the first senior member of the British government to respond to Trump’s announcement of tariffs on some of the US’s biggest trading partners, says the UK wants to break down trade barriers, not put them up. “Tariff increases really right across the world can have a really damaging impact on global growth and trade, so I don’t think it’s what anybody wants to see,” she told the BBC. She said her government’s focus is “on building trade links and better trading relationships, and removing barriers to trade, with the US, and also with other European countries and with countries right across the world”.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like

UN decries killing, silencing of journalists in Gaza

UN rights experts have voiced alarm at soaring numbers of journalists killed…

Hezbollah targets Israeli forces in Dishon

Lebanese Hezbollah said that it targeted the Israeli forces artillery positions in…

Dr. Mubashir Husain remains atop among world’s top researchers

It emerged on Friday, Dr. Mubashir Husain Rehmani from Munster Technological University…

“Latest US mass shooting highlights Republican indifference”: Biden

President Joe Biden accused US Republicans of indifference and denounced the “senseless…