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Prime minister to challenge Trump: 'Drop barriers to UK exports'
Source: The Observer
Prime minister to challenge Trump: ‘Drop barriers to UK exports’
As the two meet for first time since Johnson’s election, PM lists British products facing US ‘bureaucratic obstacles’
Heather Stewart
Sat 24 Aug 2019 22.30 BST Last modified on Sat 24 Aug 2019 23.55 BST
Boris Johnson will challenge Donald Trump to throw open US markets to British exporters after Brexit, when the two men sit down together on Sunday for their first face-to-face meeting since Johnson became prime minister.
Speaking to reporters en route to the G7 summit in the French town of Biarritz, Johnson listed a string of British products, from cars to cauliflowers and pork pies to rulers, which he claimed faced unnecessary export barriers in the US.
“You may not know this, but there are currently restrictions on the sale of British-made shower trays to the US. We’ve sold 250,000 shower trays around the world. There is some kind of bureaucratic obstacle that stops us selling them in the US because they are allegedly too low,” he said.
The comments echoed Johnson’s use of a kipper in the Tory leadership campaign to bemoan EU bureaucracy – though the rule in question subsequently turned out to be a British one.
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As the two meet for first time since Johnson’s election, PM lists British products facing US ‘bureaucratic obstacles’
Heather Stewart
Sat 24 Aug 2019 22.30 BST Last modified on Sat 24 Aug 2019 23.55 BST
Boris Johnson will challenge Donald Trump to throw open US markets to British exporters after Brexit, when the two men sit down together on Sunday for their first face-to-face meeting since Johnson became prime minister.
Speaking to reporters en route to the G7 summit in the French town of Biarritz, Johnson listed a string of British products, from cars to cauliflowers and pork pies to rulers, which he claimed faced unnecessary export barriers in the US.
“You may not know this, but there are currently restrictions on the sale of British-made shower trays to the US. We’ve sold 250,000 shower trays around the world. There is some kind of bureaucratic obstacle that stops us selling them in the US because they are allegedly too low,” he said.
The comments echoed Johnson’s use of a kipper in the Tory leadership campaign to bemoan EU bureaucracy – though the rule in question subsequently turned out to be a British one.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/boris-johnson-challenges-trump-drop-barriers-to-uk-exports-at-g7