The UK is “ready to go” on implementing its trade deal with the US, the Business Secretary has said. The deal, announced last month by Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump, will see British tariffs on steel and automotive exports to the US slashed in exchange for greater access to the UK for some American goods.

U.K. exports to the U.S. fell by highest figure on record in April, which the national statistics office attributed to Washington's tariff policies. The U.S. returned to a trade surplus in goods with the U.K. for the first time since March 2024, as its imports of British cars, metals and chemicals dropped.