WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - The United States and the
United Kingdom have more serious work to do on liberalizing
trade, a British official said on Thursday, after the two allies
announced a limited bilateral trade deal that leaves in place
U.S. President Donald Trump's 10% tariffs on British exports.
The official told reporters that the United States had also
pushed for a restructuring of Britain's digital services tax,
but that was not agreed to in the trade deal. The official said
that Washington could revisit the issue, but there was no agreed
process for doing so.
"This is not a finished, classic 'bells and whistles' free
trade agreement. It started off as a tactical response to
President Trump's tariffs, but actually morphed into a more
substantive trade deal," the official said. "And it will be
built on. ... We've done the Oval Office, now we've got more
serious work to do."