Trade experts raise fresh doubts over UK-US trade deal due to tax row

Press quote (City A.M)
Sam Lowe
24 September 2020

Sam Lowe, a trade policy adviser at the Centre for European Reform, said the Donald Trump administration sees the tax “as a discriminatory attack on US tech companies”. 

“It has already threatened retaliatory tariffs on British exports if it comes into effect,” he said.

“The US is unlikely to back down on the issue even if there is a Biden presidency, and is unlikely to strike a trade deal with the UK if it is in place.”