President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States had reached a trade agreement with the United Kingdom — albeit one that’s not quite finished.
“The final details are being written up in the coming weeks,” Trump said at the Oval Office. “We’ll have it all very conclusive, but the actual deal is a very conclusive one. We think just about everything’s been approved.”
It’s the first agreement announced between the United States and a major trading partner since the U.S. levied “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of other countries, and one both Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer lauded as a key victory — even tying it to the end of World War II in Europe given its announcement on V-E Day, proclaimed as Victory Day by Trump.