‘USA’S BRITISH TRADE TO RISE AFTER BREXIT’

DONALD Trump promised US trade with Britain will increase ‘very substantially’ after a post-Brexit deal to preserve £12.8billion (€14.6billion) of trade was agreed yesterday.

The US president said the ‘very good trading relationship’ between the countries had been ‘strengthened further’.

Mr Trump had previously criticised Theresa May’s handling of Brexit, warning the UK prime minister that moves to negotiate a softer deal with the EU could ‘kill’ any new deal with the US.

The new mutual recognition agreement replicates the current deal between the EU and US on technical standards for exported goods. British international trade secretary Liam Fox said: ‘The UK and the USA share a special trade relationship and there is real ambition on both sides of the Atlantic to enhance this after we leave the EU.’