Conservatives call for urgent US trade talks

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Alex Burghart, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, warns that looming US tariffs on UK-made cars could hurt jobs and the economy, calling on the government to negotiate a trade deal with the US before it's too late.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The government should have been negotiating with the Americans from the moment they got

00:05into power. We should be much closer to a trade arrangement with them than this government is.

00:12The truth is, if we get 25% tariffs on UK-made cars going into the US next week,

00:18it will be very damaging for jobs here and it will be damaging for the economy.

00:22The British government needs to come forward with proposals. The fact is we still put 10%

00:26tariffs on US cars coming into the UK. Surely that is the basis for the start of a conversation,

00:32but they need to get down to it.

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