How Trump's tariff chaos is affecting UK

Richard Rumbelow, Make UK, - Many UK exporters will be concerned at the further prospect of trade disruption to goods entering the US market. Stability, certainty and clarity are key cornerstones for global trade policy and for UK businesses who plan, invest and conduct trade with partners across the global economy, and particularly with customers in the United States. It’s now important UK exporters work with their US importers to maintain their trading relationships by working through customs guidance as it emerges

Given many companies will have goods at sea clarity is now urgently required on how UK exports will be treated on arrival into the United States, with the imperative being to protect the benefits of the bi-lateral trade framework that was concluded with the United States last year. It is vital government continues to seek gradual reductions in tariffs and other opportunities and seeks a strengthening of trade relations from the current position.