Trump Tariffs Ultimo: US duties to hit the United Kingdom economy even if Great Britain affects the commercial agreement, he warns the new sad forecasts

It is worth a note on some big flaws in the United Kingdom in the last two days – because they are not All due to the potential incoming rates.

Pets at home decreased by over 12 % yesterday after a warning on profit, before bouncing a little in the afternoon.

The manufacturer Travis Perkins merchant decreased by more than seven percent after having brought the revenue down and a loss of taxes of taxes of £ 77 million. They are also looking for a new CEO, after the departure relating to the health of Pete Redfern.

And the actions of John Wood Group decreased by almost a third yesterday after reporting problems with their accounts: they expect their actions to be suspended from debt time negotiation due to a delayed deposit.

The United States Department of State has made a rare intervention in British politics, warning of its “concerns about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom”.

He said Faces the criminal accusations to offer a conversation With patients looking for abortions within a legally prohibited “buffer area” outside a clinic. “We are monitoring his case. It is important that the United Kingdom respect and protect the freedom of expression”, published the account dedicated to democracy, human rights and work (Drl) of the State Department.

He added: “US-UK relationships share mutual respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. However, as Vice-President Vance said, we are worried about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom”.

Our political correspondent Archie Mitchell Reports:

Sir Keir Starmer said that the talks with the United States on a commercial agreement that would help Britain to avoid being affected by the import rates of Donald Trump are “well advanced”.

“We are discussing economic agreements,” Sir Keir said to Sky News. “Normally they would take months or years and, within a few weeks, we made ourselves put forward in those discussions.”

Looking forward to the opening of the US market in a few hours, while most of the main names have sunk yesterday in the first exchanges, there was a significant rebound later during the day.

The S&P 500 closed about 0.5 percent more at the end and several technological names are seeing the price of pre-training actions increase.

There is still time to change here, but Tesla is ready to open 3.5 percent, Nvidia 1.1 percent more, alphabet of 0.7 percent, Microsoft and Amazon are flat.

Is the opportunistic purchase at lower prices or is optimism a lower tariff impact that returns slowly?

The “sensitive areas” such as food standards will be a “red line” in the economic interviews of the United Kingdom with the United States, but the plans of axes for a tax on digital services on US technological companies could be on the table, suggested the commercial secretary.

Speaking in Times Radio, after the newspaper reported that the UK minimions have already admitted that they will abandon the plans for a tax on digital services in their talks with the US counterparts, Jonathan Reynolds said: “There are sensitive areas you cannot go.

“Other countries include that the regime that we have put in place in the United Kingdom, what we call our SPS regime (health and phytosanitary), which is our regime of food standards, is a red line for us. This is a really important area on which we would not be able to negotiate and the United States includes that position like other countries.”

While a “tax on digital services” – for which global technological companies “pay a tax rate in the United Kingdom which is commensurate with their economic activity” in Great Britain – is “an important principle”, said Reyndods, added: “But the way we reach it – we always wanted to reach it on an international basis.

“The tax on digital services itself was a temporary imposition instead of a wider international agreement. So the way we make it is something that we can speak with any country in the world.”

Times On Monday evening he reported that the UK ministers were particularly frustrated in learning that Great Britain would be affected by the US rates this week because they believed that an economic agreement – including concessions on a tax and agriculture of digital services, but no one on food hygiene standards – was ready to go.

It is not just the FTSE that was down yesterday; The S&P 500 has dropped by over 5 % in the last month and Nasdaq is located -8.2 percent in the same period of time.

Everything he sells does not mean that the money is found only in bank accounts; Traders and investors generally want to exchange or invest, not to maintain complete liquid or cash positions.

So they are looking for alternative resources. The crude oil has increased by about 2.5 percent in the last month, but the real winner has been gold. The price of the Future of Oro-Che holds the trace of the price of the ingotes perceived for the security case-it has risen to over $ 3,150, with new maximums of all time set every day at the moment.

Gold has increased by more than 21 % since the beginning of 2025. Analysts foresee a continuation along that path to about $ 3,300 by the end of the year.

Goldman Sachs’ economists have downgraded their expectations on the growth of the United Kingdom while the Breations of Great Britain were affected by the commercial rates of Donald Trump.

Although the ministers ensure the economic agreement they are looking for with the United States, Goldman Sachs analysts have declared to expect again that the UK GDP will undergo a greater blow than previously expected due to “greater negative purposes” by commercial rates collected against the European Union.

Consequently, the bank now includes 0.8 percent of the UK growth this year and 1.2 percent in 2026, respectively compared to 0.9 and 1.3.

Banca Sven Jari Stehn’s European Economist Chief was mentioned by The telegraph: “Although the direct blow to GDP with the lower exports to the United States is modest, the overall resistance on the growth of the United Kingdom is likely to be greater.

“The largest US rates on other economies included in our new base imply a wider growth blow in the United States and in the euro area, which should lead to more negative subsidies in the United Kingdom.”

The following graph traces the quarterly growth of the United Kingdom since the end of 2022, according to the office for national statistics:

The European Union will be ready to take revenge on the US commercial rates with strong countermeasures, if necessary, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.

“Our goal is a negotiated solution. But obviously, if necessary, we will protect our interests, our people and our companies,” said Von der Leyen in a speech by the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

“We don’t necessarily want to take revenge. But if necessary, we have a strong plan to take revenge and we will use it.”

The imminent increase in national employers’ insurance is having a “enormous impact” on young people looking for work, said Kemi Badenoch.

The supermarkets have been “loss of jobs” and hairdressers cannot afford to face the new staff, said the leader of the conservative party in view of the national insurance contributions of the employer on April 6.

He said to LBC: “The increase in the threshold for where the national insurance is paid has meant that many people who have not cost so much to take now – this has a huge impact on young people.

“The people who hire apprentices stopped. So the hair salons, for example, were one of the companies that have shouted more that they are unable to afford to hire a new staff.

“And it is hitting sectors of the genre, hospitality, anyone who assumes young people will be seriously affected. But the truth is that everyone has had an impact. Supermarkets have lost work.

“Many people are saying that if they allow themselves to be such a high wage invoice, or they have to pay wages at the level, stop taking and in some extreme cases, has just stopped the whole world.”

The search for Aston Business School attributes the economic impact of $ 1.4torn-if it intensifies in a large-scale commercial war.

Commercial secretary Jonathan Reynolds could believe that the United Kingdom is only placed to hit the best deal from any nation, but this does not mean that it will escape completely unharmed.

Professor Jun Du, of the Aston Business School, said: “The framework of the tariff measures may not be clear at the moment, but what is clear is that economies like the United Kingdom must plan various possibilities and start implementing mitigated measures.

“The US rates offer the United Kingdom a potential fortune through commercial diversions, yet these earnings could complicate efforts to restore relationships between the United Kingdom -ue, amplifying economic divergence, political distrust and misalignment.”