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Last Updated: May 11, 2025, 7:01 PM EDT

The White House said on Sunday that it reached a trade deal with China as the two countries negotiated for a second day in Switzerland. China has yet to comment on Sunday's talks.

"We’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters in Geneva. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said "substantial progress" had been made but stopped short of touting a full deal.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom -- the first in what the White House said it hopes will be a flurry of agreements while the reciprocal tariff pause is in effect. With UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone in the Oval Office, the leaders conceded that they are still working out the details of the agreement.

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May 08, 2025, 12:19 PM EDT

UK gives more details on trade deal

The British Prime Minister's office gave more details on its trade deal.

Under the agreement, American tariffs on British cars reduce from 27.5% to 10% for the first 100,000 vehicles exported from the U.K. to the U.S., while tariffs on steel and aluminum are dropped altogether.

"We are the first country to secure such a deal with the United States," Starmer said in remarks from a Jaguar Land Rover plant in the West Midlands region of England.

-ABC News' Morgan Winsor

May 08, 2025, 11:51 AM EDT

Trump says Ed Martin will not be nominee for DC US Attorney

Trump said he will announce a new nominee for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

His original pick, acting attorney general Ed Martin, lost support from Republicans over several controversies including Martin's constant defense of Jan. 6 rioters.

"He is a terrific person. He wasn't getting the support from people that I thought," Trump said.

"I'm very disappointed in that. But I have so many different things that I'm doing now with the trade. One person, I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day. But we have somebody else that will be great," the president added.

May 08, 2025, 11:46 AM EDT

British ambassador says deal provides good 'template'

Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador to the U.S., told reporters that the U.K. is committed to "reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers."

"This is a continuing picture, it is a movie, not a still picture. A movie, it continues. We're both committed to freeing up trade between our countries," he said.

"The point about this deal is that it provides very good template and very good launch pad for what we can continue to do and build on in the future," Mandelson added.

May 08, 2025, 11:35 AM EDT

Trump wants China to 'open up' country to American businesses

Trump was asked about negotiations with China over the tariffs and claimed that the Chinese government has been taking away many of America's industries such as microchips.

President Donald Trump makes a trade announcement with Britain in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 8, 2025.
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"I would like to say they can do better in terms of the bottom line. We would like to see China opened up so we can compete in China and give people something that they've never had," he said.

"Access to something that would be great for the world and great for our businesses and I think it would be great for friendship," he added.

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