Trump: US will be ‘increasing trade very substantially’ with post-Brexit Britain

Published February 15, 2019 4:17pm ET



President Trump pledged Friday that the U.S. will be looking to boost bilateral trade with Britain once it leaves the European Union.

“You know all of the situation with respect to Brexit and the complexity and the problems. But we have a very good trading relationship with the U.K., and that has just been strengthened further,” Trump said at a White House address Friday. “So with the U.K., we are continuing our trade. We are going to actually be increasing it very substantially as time goes by.”

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