Subject: ~100 trade EOs later
and with every single 1-on-1 negotiation meeting existing to serve corruption and publicity, there is only the highly predictable left to say :

[trump] told reporters he would look at specific industry requests for exemptions.
But preferred to keep the duties broader and less complicated.
"I want to make it nice and simple. I'm not looking to have so many exemptions that nobody knows what we're doing. We have to make it very simple."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tru...

specifically to the UK, geopol analyst peter zeihan noted long before tariffs that the UK was the nation most desperate to cut a new trade deal. until trump needed the publicity.
well , at least insignificant changes to trade don't have to rely on the nonbinding contract that might not even exist.
as trump says, simple.