{"id":21233,"date":"2025-12-17T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/uk-insists-us-tech-deal-not-dead-as-trump-threatens-penalties-against-european-firms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:37:24","slug":"uk-insists-us-tech-deal-not-dead-as-trump-threatens-penalties-against-european-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/uk-insists-us-tech-deal-not-dead-as-trump-threatens-penalties-against-european-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer\u2019s office claims UK still in \u2018active conversations\u2019 about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperate<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c79x54dprngo\">BBC reported<\/a> on Tuesday evening that the prime minister\u2019s office claimed that the UK remains in \u201cactive conversations with US counterparts at all levels of government\u201d about the wide-ranging deal for the technology industries in both countries to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, previously billed as historic, was paused after the US accused the UK of failing to lower trade barriers, including a digital services tax on US tech companies and food safety rules that limit the export of some agricultural products. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/13\/business\/economy\/trump-uk-trade-deal-tariffs.html\">New York Times first reported<\/a> British confirmation that negotiations had stalled.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/16\/uk-us-tech-prosperity-deal-trump-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2139ec923610b750c156a960d0981a1fb5164b89\/415_0_4722_3778\/master\/4722.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9db3c05821339d404090e8486d359981\" title=\"UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms\" \/>Keir Starmer\u2019s office claims UK still in \u2018active conversations\u2019 about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperate<br \/>\nDowning Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on Tuesday evening that the prime minister\u2019s office claimed that the UK remains in \u201cactive conversations with US counterparts at all levels of government\u201d about the wide-ranging deal for the technology industries in both countries to cooperate.<br \/>\nThe agreement, previously billed as historic, was paused after the US accused the UK of failing to lower trade barriers, including a digital services tax on US tech companies and food safety rules that limit the export of some agricultural products. The New York Times first reported British confirmation that negotiations had stalled. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer\u2019s office claims UK still in \u2018active conversations\u2019 about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperate Downing Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on Tuesday evening that the prime minister\u2019s office claimed that the UK &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/uk-insists-us-tech-deal-not-dead-as-trump-threatens-penalties-against-european-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}