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Trump Says He'll Nix Some Whiskey Tariffs After UK King's Visit
US President Donald Trump said he would be removing some whiskey tariffs following a visit from King Charles III, a move that delivers a major trade concession to the United Kingdom.
Trump says he will 'probably put a big tariff on the UK' if it doesn't ...
Donald Trump has threatened to impose “a big tariff” on the UK if it does not drop its digital services tax on US technology companies.The digital services tax, introduced in 2020, imposes a 2% levy on the revenues of several big US tech giants.Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Thursday, the US president said: “We’ve been looking at it and we can meet that very easily by just putting a big tariff on the UK, so they better be careful.“If they don’t drop the tax, we’ll probably put a big tariff on the UK.”The tax targets companies whose worldwide revenues from digital activities exceed £500m ($673m), with more than £25m of the revenues from UK users.While it raises more than most of the targeted businesses pay in UK corporation tax, Amazon, Google and Apple pass the tax on to the bills of the third-party businesses and sellers that use their sites.Last year, Tax Justice UK estimated that the tax would generate £4.4bn-£5.2bn between 2024 and 2029.On Friday, Downing Street said that the UK does not intend to scrap the digital services tax despite the threat of US tariffs.“Our position on that is unchanged,” said the prime minister’s official spokesperson. “It is a hugely important tax to make sure that those businesses continue to pay their share. So it is a fair and proportionate approach to taxing business activities in the UK.”However, the digital services tax is only meant to be an interim measure, and the UK government agreed in 2021 to phase it out, averting the threat of retaliatory tariffs on British products from the US.The tax was meant to be replaced in 2024 with a new global system after the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) brokered a deal between 140 countries, including the UK, that proposed large multinational companies paying tax in the countries where they do business committed themselves to a minimum 15% corporation tax rate. Implementation has been beset with delays as a number of countries have continued to raise objections over the regime.Trump argued the laws, which have long been a source of tension in UK-US relations, targeted the “top companies in the world”.“The UK did it, a couple of other people did it,” he said. “They think they’re going to make an easy buck, that’s why they’ve all taken advantage of our country.”The DST went unchanged under the UK-US trade deal agreed in May 2025, despite being a point of discussion.Asked how high the tariff would be, the president said it would be “more tha...
Trump's Dinner for King Charles Celebrates an Enduring Alliance
King Charles III and President Trump praised the Anglo-American relationship in lofty terms, with disagreements about the Iran war left mostly unmentioned.
Poor relationship with Starmer will not overshadow King's visit, Trump ...
A breakdown in the political relationship between the US and Britain will not have an impact on the King's upcoming state visit to America, Donald Trump has insisted.
