Theresa May meeting with Donald Trump produces ‘not much’ — for now
Donald Trump’s first week as president has been a bad one for free trade. He suggested he would propose a new 20% tariff for imports from Mexico. He formally withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and said he would start renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. Then there’s the shoe that didn’t drop: He met with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, and they emerged together to announce … well, not much. There’s an appetite on both sides for new negotiations for a US-UK trade agreement, given the UK’s imminent departure from the European Union. Earlier this month, Trump told the Times of London that he would work hard to get such a deal done "quickly and properly." May has promised her own citizens that a US-UK trade agreement would be the key to British prosperity after Brexit. And yet at a joint appearance at the White House on Friday, capping the first visit of a foreign leader to Trump’s White House, both Trump and May studiously avoided say...
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