Final details are under wraps but Trump promised the deal provides billions of dollars in access for U.S. agricultural products like beef and ethanol.

President Trump’s tariff policy is shredding global trust in the U.S. and risks driving friends and allies closer into China’s orbit. Many of the tariffs imposed by Trump breach U.S. treaty-based trade agreements.

Washington celebrates that "it has been possible because we blew up the whole system," while London considers it a "start," but not the end, and resists accepting a relaxation of phytosanitary standards.

The president has backtracked repeatedly on his tariff policies, creating a whiplash with downsides and few clear benefits so far.

Before Trump began his visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, his sons Eric and Donald Jr. had already traveled the Middle East extensively in recent weeks. They were drumming up business for The Trump Organization, which they are running in their father’s stead while he’s in the White House.

President Trump makes announcement on U.K. trade deal. The deal is the first by the United States with a country whose imports were subject to new tariffs imposed by Trump in early April.

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria's president in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and urged him to normalise ties with longtime foe Israel, after a surprise U.S. announcement that it would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government.