United States Hopes For Trade Deal With UK, Trump's Trade Chief Says - BBC

• The United States is hopeful of sealing a mini-trade deal with the United Kingdom to reduce tariffs, President Donald Trump's trade chief, Robert Lighthizer, told the BBC.
• Lighthizer said he was hopeful for a deal that could see punitive tariffs on Scottish whisky lowered.
• He also suggested the UK would need to go further than last week's announcement breaking with the EU's support of European planemaker Airbus.
• Britain will suspend retaliatory tariffs imposed on U.S. goods as part of a dispute over aircraft subsidies from Jan. 1, the first step to diverging from European Union trade policy.

(Source: Reuters)