President Donald Trump's chief trade advisor Peter Navarro said Thursday he's confident British consumers will enjoy imported American chicken and beef, even though these products may contain chlorine and hormones, according to a Guardian report.
There have been concerns in the United Kingdom regarding the safety of chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef imported from the United States. Hormone-treated American beef and chlorinated chicken are legal in the U.S. but banned in the U.K.
“Let’s see what the market decides,” Navarro told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about these concerns.
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The Trump official went on to describe sanitary standards as “simply a phony tool used to suppress what is very fine American agricultural product”.
“So if more of that comes into the market and the British people don’t want to buy it, that’s one set of facts,” he said. “We don’t believe that once they taste American beef and chicken that they would prefer not to have it.”
The U.S. agreed on Thursday to lower import tariffs on a specific number of British cars and permit certain quantities of steel and aluminum to enter the country without tariffs, as part of a new agreement between the two countries.
However, a 10 percent tariff will remain on most U.K. goods.
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While leaders in both nations praised the deal as important, analysts noted that it does not significantly change the overall trade relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. compared to the terms before Trump's recent tariff policies.
Click here to read the Guardian's full report.