{"id":129383,"date":"2019-08-13T22:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T22:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/trump-envoys-cheap-brexit-promises\/"},"modified":"2019-08-13T22:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T22:40:05","slug":"trump-envoys-cheap-brexit-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/trump-envoys-cheap-brexit-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoys cheap Brexit promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Boltons proposal for sectoral U.S.-U.K. trade deals post Brexit has caused excitement in London, but cynical trade experts are not convinced.<\/p>\n<p>Promises come cheap, they point out. When the U.S. asks Britain to sign on the dotted line, it will be Congress, U.S. farmers, and Trade Representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/the-charge-of-the-robert-lighthizer-brigade-trade-war-us-donald-trump\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lighthizer who dictate the conditions<\/a>, not Trumps national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Bolton is proposing is not realistic,\u201d said Sam Lowe from the Centre for European Reform. \u201cWhy would Congress sign off on anything that doesnt have agriculture included?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any trade deal with the U.S. needs to be ratified by Congress \u2014 where Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, and interest groups, in particular farmers, work to make sure any trade deal is in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Congress cares about is agriculture and dismantling the EUs regulatory approach to food and chemicals,\u201d Lowe argued. Any deal that falls short of that would not be ratified, regardless of Boltons assurances.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/12\/trump-uscma-democrats-pelosi-2020-1409497\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Congress has been holding up Trumps new USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico<\/a> for months over dairy exports, lumber tariffs, and weak labor rights protections. It has made clear the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/trump-to-eu-include-agriculture-in-us-trade-talks-or-face-tariffs\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wont even consider negotiating a trade agreement<\/a> with the EU that doesnt include market openings for U.S. beef and chicken.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton did not mention this inconvenience during his visit in London, likely because he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/11\/us-china-sanctions-iran-oil-1585902\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other goals in mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Bolton, the promise of a trade deal is a carrot to get U.K. cooperation on security issues,\u201d Lowe said. The need for Boris Johnsons administration to show that Brexit will be a success has not gone unnoticed in Washington. Promising trade deals gets Bolton friends in Downing Street without costing anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember that Bolton is not a trade expert. All he cares about is getting leverage to get the U.K. to follow the U.S. on Huawei, Iran and China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Henig, director of the U.K. Trade Policy Project, pointed out another flaw in Boltons proposal: \u201cPartial trade deals that reduce tariffs in one sector are not legal under WTO rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cTrump and Bolton have shown before that they care little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-envoy-john-bolton-cheap-brexit-promises\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boltons proposal for sectoral U.S.-U.K. trade deals post Brexit has caused excitement in London..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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