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Great Britain was in mood this week. On Thursday, he announced an agreement that reduces potential duties to his automotive, steel and aluminum exports to the United States, which makes the first nation to win a stay of Donald Trump because he described the plans for world prices last month. Two days earlier, the United Kingdom has concluded a trade agreement with India that has been underway for three years. The two agreements hardly represent the most optimal agreements from the point of view of Great Britain, and they will have little impact on its path of economic growth. However, there are positive points to be removed from both, and they are a base on which the government can rely.
When uncertainty abounds, rapid political decisions take on greater importance. The US agreement establishes its 10% prices on most British automobile sales and completely removes steel and aluminum, compared to the 25% threatened. This provides at least one short -term respite for both industries, their supply chains and their workers. “Significant preferential treatment” for British pharmaceuticals of any future American tasks is another advantage. The optics of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer being the World leader Aware of an agreement with the American president should not be overlooked either. For investors, he notes that the United Kingdom could be relatively sheltered by Trump's protectionist agenda.
THE Agreement with IndiaMeanwhile, aligns the United Kingdom closer to one of the bigiest economies in the world. It reduces tasks by more than 90% of exports from British products to the country, with specific advantages for the food and drinks sector. With pricing barriers that increase in the world, it is a small but symbolic for free trade. And alongside the American agreement, he reiterates the determination of Great Britain to remain open to global companies.
However, the agreements must be put into perspective. The agreement with America is simply a less bad result for the United Kingdom, compared to the American prices which was confronted before the inauguration of Trump. He always faces a coverage of 10% on other goods. The American president announced plans for a price of 100% on foreign films last weekend, which would hardly strike the film industry booming from Great Britain, but there was no mention of this in the announcement Thursday.
The pact with India should also increase the long -term GDP of the United Kingdom by 0.1% per year – by 2040. The agreement largely focuses on goods, with limited details on how it could increase access to India for the British services sector. A Westminster quarrel on a three -year allowance for Indian employers and employees to avoid paying national British insurance contributions is likely to undermine political gains for the Starmer of the Agreement.
The two agreements must be developed more. Starmer should rely on his links with Trump not only to isolate Great Britain of the president's love for import samples, but also to find avenues where mutual prices and non-pricing barriers can go further. With India, the United Kingdom should use the momentum from the agreement to facilitate that its professional service industry will do business there, including putting pressure for mutual recognition of qualifications.
Nevertheless, the greatest potential of economic gains related to trade for Great Britain is closer to his home, improving links with the EU, always his biggest trading partner. Government’s refusal to grant the United States important concessions on food protection standards and animals may have diluted its agreement with Trump, but it raises the risk of a more fruitful trade agreement in the United Kingdom.
Starmer's rapid foot pragmatism in obtaining commercial transactions is refreshing for a government which must still prove that it can deliver for the country. But when it comes to the actual increase in the economic growth of the United Kingdom, the agreements, so far, are no more than a steel spectacle.
