President Trump will host Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at his two golf courses in Scotland on Monday, the day after announcing a deal with the European Union designed to avoid a costly economic war with America’s biggest trading bloc.
Mr. Trump announced on Sunday that Europe had agreed to tariffs of 15 percent on automobiles and most other E.U. goods, after meeting with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the E.U.’s executive branch. The tariffs are higher than the 10 percent duty on most British goods that Britain, which is not in the European Union, agreed to in a deal that Mr. Starmer and Mr. Trump struck in May.
The 27-nation bloc also agreed to buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy and invest $600 billion in the United States, Mr. Trump said.
Trade is among the topics that Mr. Trump and Mr. Starmer are expected to discuss when they meet first at Mr. Trump’s Turnberry golf club on the west coast of Scotland and then travel to the other side of the country for dinner at the president’s other club, in Aberdeen.
The two leaders are expected to resume efforts to resolve a dispute about U.S. tariffs on British steel and aluminum, which remain at 25 percent. In June, Britain and the United States signed an agreement to resolve other trade issues, with both sides saying the deal would benefit both countries.
British officials said they expect the all-day agenda to also include the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the grinding war in Ukraine.
Mr. Trump, previewing his discussions with Mr. Starmer to reporters on Sunday, said he expected a lot of discussion on Israel. “They’re very much involved in terms of wanting something to happen,” he said.
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In recent days, Mr. Starmer has ratcheted up his criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, though he has stopped short of joining President Emmanuel Macron of France, who announced last week that France would formally recognize a Palestinian state. In a statement on Friday, Mr. Starmer said, “The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting,” adding that the denial of humanitarian aid and “Israel’s disproportionate military escalation in Gaza are all indefensible.”
On Sunday, Mr. Trump falsely accused European countries of not sending money and aid to Gaza. “It’s not a U.S. problem,” Mr. Trump said of food shortages in Gaza. “It’s an international problem. And we’re giving a lot of money and a lot of food, a lot of everything. If we weren’t there, I think people would have starved.”
In fact, as of January, the European Union had spent about $605 million on aid to Gaza since 2023, according to the European Commission. As severe hunger sweeps across Gaza, health officials in the territory said on Saturday that at least 56 Palestinians there, many of them children, had died in July of starvation. In the face of growing outrage over conditions in the territory, Israel said on Sunday that it was pausing military activity in parts of Gaza to let in more international aid, although it was unclear whether the move would allow for enough food to meet Palestinians’ desperate needs.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Starmer are also expected to discuss the stalled effort to bring an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia, which the president once said would be over within 24 hours of his inauguration.
For months, Mr. Trump said he believed that President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who ordered an invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, wanted a negotiated settlement. But more recently, Mr. Trump has expressed frustration and disappointment with Mr. Putin as the war has dragged on.
Earlier this year, when it seemed like Mr. Trump was washing his hands of efforts to end the conflict, Mr. Starmer joined with Mr. Macron to form a “coalition of the willing” who would secure any peace between Ukraine and Russia.
A statement on Sunday from Mr. Starmer’s office said that he and Mr. Trump would “reflect on progress in their 50-day drive to arm Ukraine and force Putin to the negotiating table.”
