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Ryuu96 said:

So what did America get? Seemingly the UK will reduce tariffs on American beef to zero (so will the USA on British beef) and the UK will also reduce tariffs on American beer to zero. Alongside that, American imports will be fast tracked. Well that's all well and good but British people need to actually buy American beef and I doubt they do in large numbers, we also have a lot of very popular non-American beer brands but I don't drink so I'm not sure how popular American beer is in the UK. Alongside all of this, the UK didn't compromise on its standards and still enforces strict rules on American beef in terms of hormone treatment, etc. So as long as the American beef meets our standards, I don't care if it comes in.

But like Bloomberg said, it's a framework of a deal, nothing has been signed, it could take weeks-months before it actually gets signed, Lol.

Any Brits have any thoughts on this deal?

That's actually a very bad deal for the US.

The reason is that the US are very bad at tracking the origins of their food sources, meaning just a handful of small farms actually follow the rules that allow exports to EU & UK. In other words, the US can't export more beef to the UK even if Brits would want more, but the UK can sell more to the US without a hitch.

Also, what European would drink American "beer" except as a novelty or at gunpoint?