G7 summit in Canada
Tsuut'ina Minor Chief Steven Crowchild and Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta (second from right) prepare to welcome world leaders arriving at Calgary airport Photograph: Amber Bracken/Reuters
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney (right) with German chancellor Friedrich Merz Photograph: Darryl Dyck/AP
A demonstrator holds an anti-Trump sign during a protest in front of Calgary city hall Photograph:A security operative appears to be exiting an invisible plane at Calgary airport Photograph: Amber Bracken/Reuters
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer stands guard at Calgary airport Photograph: Amber Bracken/Reuters
Clockwise around the table: Ursula von der Leyen (European commission); António Costa (European council); Shigeru Ishiba (Japan); Giorgia Meloni (Italy); Emmanuel Macron (France); Mark Carney (Canada); Donald Trump (US); Keir Starmer (UK); and Friedrich Merz (Germany) Photograph: Michael Kappeler/dts News Agency /Shutterstock
From left: US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, secretary of state Marco Rubio and US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra at the summit Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
A lone protester, Dominic Winters, stands with a sign at the authorised protest zone in Banff, Alberta Photograph: Dave Chidley/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump during a session at the summit Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Police officers at a security checkpoint on the road to the Rocky Mountain resort town of Kananaskis Photograph: Amber Bracken/Reuters
Canadian PM Mark Carney welcomes French president Emmanuel Macron as he arrives for the G7 summit Photograph: Chris Helgren/Reuters
Emmanuel Macron walks on after being greeted by Steven Crowchild of the Tsuut'ina First Nation, at Calgary airport Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock
Donald Trump and Mark Carney on the sidelines of the summit Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Italian premier Giorgia Meloni with German chancellor Friedrich Merz Photograph: Filippo Attili/EPA
Keir Starmer, the UK's prime minister, raises a thumb as he arrives at the summit Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Donald Trump walks past a G7 sign at the summit Photograph: dts News Agency Germany Michael Kappeler/Shutterstock
Keir Starmer picks up UK-US trade deal papers accidentally dropped by Donald Trump
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The Independent
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Trump claims ‘big stuff is happening' as he leaves G7 summit early to return to Washington
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The Sun
35 minutes ago
- The Sun
Trump dramatically leaves G7 early as he urges Tehran to ‘evacuate immediately' sparking fears of major Iran escalation
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The Independent
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- The Independent
Trump finally signed a UK-US trade deal - but Starmer still faces steel tariffs race
President Trump brandished his trade deal with the UK at the G7 meeting in Canada, announcing he had finally signed it after weeks of wrangling - then promptly dropped it on the ground. Keir Starmer was quick to respond to the US president's clumsiness, bending down to pick up the precious agreement, set to protect auto industry jobs in Britain. The whole thing could be seen as a metaphor for how the Republican sees these kinds of deals - and continues to treat them. Because there is a sting in the tail to what the two men signed in Alberta. Whopping tariffs of 25 per cent remain on British steel - one of the industries that can least afford them. And the prime minister now faces a race against time to try to get rid of them, before they cripple an already beleaguered industry. The US president sent shockwaves through the global economy when he announced his steel tariffs – and then, a few weeks ago, plans to double them. The UK-US trade deal unveiled with much fanfare in April should have exempted Britain from steel tariffs altogether – but there was one problem, it had yet to be implemented. And it still has not. Trump's signature means the deal can now go through parliaments on either side of the Atlantic, but that process will still take days. It was not supposed to be like this. When it was first unveiled Trump hailed the trade agreement with the UK as a 'great deal for both countries', while the prime minister said the move would 'boost British businesses and save thousands of British jobs' and deliver on his promises to protect carmakers and, crucially, save the UK's steel industry. Under its terms, levies on steel and aluminium were to be reduced to zero. However, a general 10 per cent tariff for other goods would remain and Britain agreed to scrap its tariff on ethanol coming into the UK from the US. At the time the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, said the UK had been 'shafted' as she contrasted the amount UK business would have to pay with their costs before Trump came to power. Earlier this year, MPs were forced to hold a Saturday sitting to approve emergency plans to save British Steel 's Scunthorpe blast furnaces by taking control away from its Chinese owners. Although the new law stopped short of nationalisation, the government conceded it was "likely" British Steel would have to be taken into public ownership as Sir Keir warned the UK's economic and national security was "on the line". At the time, he said his government was 'turning the page on a decade of decline, where our manufacturing heartlands were hollowed out by the previous government. Our industry is the pride of our history – and I want it to be our future too." The British steel industry described it as a 'body blow' to wake up a few weeks ago and discover that Trump had announced overnight plans to universally double steel tariffs, from 25 to 50 per cent. That appears to have fallen again, to 25 per cent, still an astronomical sum. The calculation at the G7 has been to use a meeting with the president to get most of the way there on the trade deal. To give industries like the car sector the certainty they, and their workers, badly need. And sort out the rest later. But the beleaguered British steel industry will be hoping they get the same kind of certainty very soon indeed.
