Maddow Blog-Trump's 'trade deal' with the United Kingdom isn't yet an actual trade deal

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3. England doesn't want US beef

I was stationed in England in the mid-90s and we bought beef raised in the UK or the European Union in the commissary. American beef couldn't be sold in the UK because most of our beef are raised using hormones and the UK doesn't allow it. For some reason, the Defense Commissary Agency (DCA) sent a ship full of American beef to Germany and England to sell in the commissary. Both countries refused to allow the beef to be sold in their countries so instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars to ship the beef back DCA decided to get around the ban on selling the meat by giving it to American military personnel for free.

There's very little demand for American beef in England so lowering the UK tariff on American beef amounts to doing almost nothing to increase sales of American beef in England. Art of the Deal? I don't think so.