Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, In making the difficult choices involved in responding to President Trump’s plethora of tariffs the government should be guided primarily by our free-trade principles (“What pain could America inflict and how can the UK respond?”, Apr 1). That means in the first instance deepening relations with other trade partners across Europe and beyond to seek to offset some of the economic damage. With regard to the US we should set out a clear public position of doing a deal only if it is demonstrably in the national economic interest and does not interfere with our sovereignty. Trade deals, particularly with larger players, involve difficult concessions, something ministers have rarely wished to acknowledge. Maybe it is worth sacrificing the digital

Source: The Times April 02, 2025 00:34 UTC