‘Down to the wire’: inside the UK’s crunch talks with the US as it bids to avoid Trump tariffs

Ministers seek carve-out from import taxes before 2 April deadline - but critics believe they may have offered too many concessions

UK ministers and senior officials at every level are holding talks with US counterparts this weekend in a last-ditch effort to secure a carve-out from swingeing import taxes.

Government sources said ministers were raising Donald Trump's looming tariffs as the No 1" issue in every conversation with the US.