Trump is committed to 10% baseline tariff, White House says, despite UK trade deal announcement

President Donald Trump is "determined to proceed with a "10% baseline tariff" against each countries contempt his announcement this week of a commercialized woody with the United Kingdom, the White House said Friday. 

"The president is committed to the 10% baseline tariff, not conscionable for the United Kingdom, but for his commercialized negotiations with each different countries arsenic well," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. 

"Permanently? Even aft the deals are done. Like, that is going to remain?" Leavitt was asked by Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich. 

"The president is determined to proceed with that 10% baseline tariff," Leavitt responded. 

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White House property caput Karoline Leavitt listens during a briefing with reporters successful the James Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House, connected Friday, May 9, successful Washington, D.C.  (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump announced a caller commercialized woody Thursday with the U.K., calling it "an unthinkable time for America."  

Trump told reporters astatine the White House that "today’s statement with the U.K. is the archetypal successful a bid of agreements connected commercialized that my medication has been negotiating implicit the past 4 weeks."  

"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.  

"They’ll besides beryllium fast-tracking American goods done their customs process truthful our exports spell to a very, precise speedy signifier of approval," the president added, noting that "The last details are being written up successful the coming weeks." 

TRUMP CONFIRMS TRADE DEAL WITH UK: ‘FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE’ 

Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets with President Donald Trump astatine the White House connected Feb. 27. (Carl Court - Pool/Getty Images)

As of April 5, the U.S. has imposed a 10% reciprocal tariff connected imports from the U.K. 

The Trump administration’s 25% planetary tariff connected cars took effect connected April 3, impacting each imported vehicles, adjacent from accepted U.S. allies, including the U.K. A 25% tariff connected U.S. imports of steel, aluminum and derivative products took effect connected March 12.  

Prior to April 2025, astir U.K. goods exported to the U.S. were taxable to standard, comparatively debased tariffs, mostly ranging from 0 to 2.5%, with higher rates lone for circumstantial products similar steel, aluminum, and immoderate vehicles. The U.K., meanwhile, imposed tariffs connected U.S. imports based connected the World Trade Organization’s "Most Favored Nation" oregon MFN rules. 

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 connected Thursday, May 8, pursuing Trump's U.K. commercialized woody announcement. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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The U.K.’s mean MFN applied tariff complaint was 3.8% successful 2023, according to the astir caller information available. The UK has immoderate precocious tariffs that impact U.S. exports, specified arsenic rates of up to 25% for immoderate food and seafood products, 10% for trucks, 10% for rider vehicles, and up to 6.5% for definite mineral oregon chemic fertilizers. 

Fox News’ Danielle Wallace and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.