{"id":403088,"date":"2021-03-05T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403088"},"modified":"2021-03-05T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:59:21","slug":"us-suspends-tariffs-on-uk-goods-in-airbus-boeing-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-suspends-tariffs-on-uk-goods-in-airbus-boeing-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"US suspends tariffs on UK goods in Airbus-Boeing dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.K. products caught up in the longstanding dispute over illegal aid to Boeing Co. and Airbus SE in a boost for post-Brexit Britain\u2019s trade agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff suspension will last four months to \u201cfocus on negotiating a balanced settlement to the disputes,&#8221; the U.K. government said in a statement on Thursday. The decision means goods like Scotch whisky, biscuits and clotted cream can be imported to the U.S. from Britain without being subject to an additional 25% duty.<\/p>\n<p>Removing tariffs on U.K-U.S. commerce has been a priority for Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s government as they seek a broader trade deal with President Joe Biden\u2019s administration. Britain dropped tariffs on some U.S. products indefinitely in January in a bid to reduce trade tensions. The former Trump administration did not reciprocate the U.K.\u2019s concession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.K. products caught up in the longstanding dispute over illegal aid to Boeing Co. and Airbus SE in a boost for post-Brexit Britain\u2019s trade agenda. The tariff suspension will last four months to \u201cfocus on negotiating a balanced settlement to the disputes,&#8221; the U.K. government said in a statement on Thursday. The decision means goods like Scotch whisky, biscuits and clotted cream can be imported to the U.S. from Britain without being subject to an additional 25% duty. Removing tariffs on U.K-U.S. commerce has been a priority for Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}