{"id":60684,"date":"2016-11-12T15:28:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T22:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60684"},"modified":"2016-11-12T15:28:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T22:28:28","slug":"freer-trade-with-uk-would-help-america-says-trump-economic-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/12\/freer-trade-with-uk-would-help-america-says-trump-economic-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Freer trade with UK would help America, says Trump economic adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By <a class=\"author\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Simon+Watkins+for+The+Mail+on+Sunday\" rel=\"nofollow\">Simon Watkins for The Mail on Sunday<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>Britain and the US would both benefit from a new open trade deal, Donald Trump\u2019s senior economic adviser told The Mail on Sunday this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In a wide-ranging interview, Stephen Moore, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan and a key architect of Trump\u2019s plans to slash taxes, said the President-elect was not an isolationist and merely wanted trade to be fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Moore said: \u2018I think that a more open and free trade system with Britain would be very much in America\u2019s interests and in Britain\u2019s interests. Trump has told me: I am not an isolationist. I am not a protectionist. I just want to make sure we have free trade, but fair trade\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Moore\u2019s views will add to the already divided opinions over whether Trump\u2019s victory helps or hinders UK hopes for a trade deal. Axel Schafer, a Brexit adviser to the German Government, was reported this weekend saying a UK-US deal was always unlikely but under Trump was \u2018delusional\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Moore hailed fracking as being like an \u2018economic cure for cancer\u2019 which had boosted the US. He said: \u2018We almost doubled our oil and gas production in the last seven years. We are at the beginning stages of an energy revolution. If the US can do it, the United Kingdom can do it.\u2019<\/p>\n<div>Moore added that a tax deal to lure global companies back from low-tax markets like Ireland was the centrepiece of Trump\u2019s economic agenda and would generate billions to spend on big infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<div>\nRead more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/news\/article-3930424\/Freer-trade-UK-help-America-says-Trump-adviser.html#ixzz4PpuLsXl9\">http:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/news\/article-3930424\/Freer-trade-UK-help-America-says-Trump-adviser.html#ixzz4PpuLsXl9<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us: <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=MailOnline\" target=\"_blank\">@MailOnline on Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=DailyMail\" target=\"_blank\">DailyMail on Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Simon Watkins for The Mail on Sunday Britain and the US would both benefit from a new open trade deal, Donald Trump\u2019s senior economic adviser told The Mail on Sunday this weekend. In a wide-ranging interview, Stephen Moore, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan and a key architect of Trump\u2019s plans to slash taxes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}