<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11529766/britain-us-trade-talks-next-week/" class="">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11529766/britain-us-trade-talks-next-week/</a>
</div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><header class="article__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><section class="article__headline-section article__headline-section--offset" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TheSun-HeavyNarrow, 'The Sun', TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 45px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="t-p-color article__kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; display: inline; color: rgb(64, 133, 203);">TRADING TIME </span><h1 class="article__headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; display: inline; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 400;">Britain to start US trade talks next week with Donald Trump ‘desperate to do a deal’</h1></section></header><div class="article__meta article_standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 1.6rem; margin-bottom: 13px; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif;"><div class="article__name-date" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="article-slug--article-page article-slug t-p-background-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: TheSun-HeavyNarrow, 'The Sun', TheSun, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 2.1rem; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 12px 16px 0px; padding: 8px; background-color: rgb(64, 133, 203);"><span class="article-slug__copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6rem; position: relative; font-size: 1.8rem;">EXCLUSIVE</span></div><div class="article__author" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 2px;"><ul class="t-p-color article__ul" itemprop="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(64, 133, 203);"><li class="article__author-list t-p-background-color__before" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative; margin-right: 10px;"><span class="article__author-name t-p-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom Newton Dunn</span></li><li class="article__author-list t-p-background-color__before" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;"><span class="article__author-name t-p-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Steve Edington</span></li></ul></div><ul class="article__time" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(110, 112, 112); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="article__published" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;"><span class="article__datestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 May 2020, </span><span class="article__timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box;">20:02</span></li><li class="article__updated" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; position: relative; margin-left: 10px;"><span class="article__datestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Updated</span>: 1 May 2020, </span><span class="article__timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box;">20:06</span></li></ul></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><p class="article__content--intro article__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif;">MINISTERS are to start trade deal talks with the US next week, The Sun can reveal.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Downing Street has issued the order to commence the formal negotiation despite the coronavirus pandemic still raging in both countries.</p></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">The talks will be carried out between London and Washington DC via teleconference for as long as the travel lockdown lasts.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">The first round will be held between International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Robert Lighthizer, the current US President’s Trade Representative.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Beginning on Wednesday, it is due to last for two weeks.</p></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">The White House has been pressing to start the talks for months while the UK was dragging its feet.</span></div><div class=""><div class="advert-wrapper advert-wrapper--outstream" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div id="outstream" class="advert--outstream dfp-ad" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class=""><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/who/donald-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(110, 112, 112);" class="">Donald Trump</a> is desperate to do a deal by the Autumn ahead of the November presidential election.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">But until now, No10 has moved at a slower pace, with Boris Johnson fearing a simultaneous Transatlantic negotiation would complicate talks with the EU for a trade deal by the end of this year.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">A source close to the negotiations said: “No10 gave the green light late this week for the talks to start.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">“The process has been significantly speeded up.”</p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Beginning negotiations with the US now could help to add pressure on Brussels after the Brexit talks hit another logjam last week.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">The PM is defying mounting calls to extend the Brexit transition period beyond the end of this year to allow Downing Street to concentrate fully on the coronavirus crisis.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">US and UK negotiators are expected to clash in two major areas, agriculture and food standards, amid a row over US processes such as chlorinated chicken.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 37, 38); font-family: TheSun, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">The White House has also insisted Britain drops its threat to slap a new ‘tech tax’ on California-based social media firms who pay little tax here.</p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; 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