Trump inks trade deal with UK, previews China trade negotiations during 16th week in office

President Donald Trump and his medication inked a large commercialized woody with the U.K. Thursday, and closed the week gearing up for commercialized talks with China implicit the weekend. 

Details of the circumstantial commercialized program with the U.K. are sparse, but the woody keeps the existing 10% tariffs successful spot against U.K. goods portion removing immoderate import taxes connected items similar alloy and cars. 

"With this deal, the U.K. joins the United States successful affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an indispensable and captious rule of planetary trade," Trump said Thursday. "The woody includes billions of dollars of accrued marketplace entree for American exports, particularly successful agriculture, dramatically expanding entree for American beef, ethanol and virtually each of the products produced by our large farmers." 

TRUMP SIGNALS CHINA ‘VERY MUCH’ INTERESTED IN SECURING TRADE DEAL AHEAD OF SWITZERLAND NEGOTIATIONS

President Donald Trump on with Vice President JD Vance and Peter Mandelson, British Ambassador to the United States, 3rd from left, perceive arsenic Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain speaks connected the speakerphone successful the Oval Office astatine the White House May 8, 2025, pursuing Trump's U.K. commercialized woody announcement. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The woody is the archetypal historical commercialized dialog signed pursuing Liberation Day, erstwhile Trump announced wide tariffs for aggregate countries April 2 astatine a scope of rates. 

The medication aboriginal adjusted its archetypal connection and announced April 9 it would instantly enforce a 145% tariff connected Chinese goods, portion reducing reciprocal tariffs connected different countries for 90 days to a baseline of 10%. China responded by raising tariffs connected U.S. goods to 125%.

Trump besides shed immoderate penetration into commercialized negotiations with China, fixed that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is scheduled to footwear disconnected commercialized negotiations with China successful Switzerland Saturday. 

"Scott's going to beryllium going to Switzerland, gathering with China," Trump told reporters Thursday astatine the White House. "And you know, they precise overmuch privation to marque a deal. We tin each play games. Who made the archetypal call, who didn't marque them? It doesn't matter. Only matters what happens successful that room. But I volition archer you that China precise overmuch wants to marque a deal. We'll spot however that works out."

Here’s what besides happened this week: 

Meeting with Canada’s premier minister 

Trump besides doubled down connected his involvement successful expanding the U.S. during a Tuesday sojourn with Canada’s premier minister, Mark Carney. 

Trump regularly has said helium wants Canada to go a U.S. state, and has discussed acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal for information purposes. However, the substance of Canada isn’t unfastened to negotiation, Carney said. 

"Having met with the owners of Canada implicit the people of the run the past respective months, it's not for sale," Carney said astatine the White House Tuesday. "Won't beryllium for merchantability ever, but the accidental is successful the concern and what we tin physique together. We person done that successful the past, and portion of that, arsenic the president conscionable said, is with respect to our security, and my authorities is committed for a measurement alteration successful our concern successful Canadian information and our partnership."

CARNEY SAYS CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE, TRUMP REPLIES ‘NEVER SAY NEVER’

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, May 6, 2025.   (Jim Watson/AFP)

While Trump acknowledged that Canada was stepping up its concern successful subject security, helium said, "Never accidental never" successful effect to Canada becoming different state. 

"I’ve had many, galore things that were not doable, and they ended up being doable," Trump said.

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Meeting with ballet dancer freed from Russian prison 

Trump besides met with Russian-American ballet dancer, Ksenia Karelina, astatine the White House Monday. Karelina faced a condemnation of 12 years successful a Russian penal colony for treason successful 2024, but the Trump medication negotiated her instrumentality to the U.S. during a U.S.-Russian captive swap successful April. 

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Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka takes a representation of US-Russian ballet dancer Ksenia Karelina and her boyfriend, South African boxer Chris van Heerden, astatine Joint Base Andrews successful Maryland, pursuing Karelina's merchandise from Russia connected April 10, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

"Mr. Trump, I'm so, truthful grateful for you to bring maine location and for (the) American government. And I ne'er felt much blessed to beryllium American, and I'm so, truthful blessed to get home," Karelina said successful a video posted by Trump lawman adjunct Sebastian Gorka connected April 11 upon her instrumentality to the U.S.

Karelina, a nonmigratory of Los Angeles who was calved successful Russia, was arrested successful 2024 during a travel to sojourn household successful Yekaterinburg, Russia. Russia Federal Security Service arrested her aft inspecting her telephone and uncovering a donation to a U.S.-based foundation that supports Ukraine. 

Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.