U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will meet this week with UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss who the Financial Times said would relate her frustration at American officials over “punitive” tariffs levied on British goods.
Truss' visit to Washington underlines the UK's desire to strike a trade deal with America quickly, despite U.S. officials saying final talks on a new trade accord would not likely be completed by the end of the year.
Truss told the Financial Times that, while U.S. officials “talk a good game on free trade and low tariffs, the reality is that many of our great British products are being kept unfairly out of their market.”
She is expected to raise the retaliatory tariffs as part of the Airbus and Boeing dispute in the aviation sector, as well as the prospect of further tariffs being levied on British goods.
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