Items that could face price rise if UK hits back at Donald Trump's tariff introductions

The UK is about to be hit by tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, with measures due to kick on on 2 April.

Trump has branded the date 'liberation day', claiming that by making foreign goods more expensive in the US it'll encourage Americans to buy domestic and boost their own industry.

Of course, anyone in the US who has no choice but to buy goods imported from abroad is going to be suffering for it.

The UK and US have been engaged in 'productive negotiations' towards agreeing a trade deal that might head off potential tariffs, but the clock is ticking.

A Downing Street spokesperson said (via Sky News): "They discussed the productive negotiations between their respective teams on a UK-US economic prosperity deal, agreeing that these will continue at pace this week."

In come the new tariffs, unless the UK can secure a trade deal very quickly (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

If a deal to make the UK exempt from tariffs can't be secured, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that Britain 'reserves the right' to introduce reciprocal tariffs on US goods.

A trade war isn't going to be good for anyone, but if the US sticks a 25 percent tariff on car imports that's going to be pretty f**king painful and retaliating with reciprocal tariffs could be seen as a way to pressure Trump to back off.

What the UK's tariffs would look like is not clear, but according to the BBC, they could be targeted to specific products the US sees as especially important.

They name Harley Davidson motorbikes as one of the products which could be affected by reciprocal tariffs, with iconic American brands supposedly being lined up as potential targets.

The Daily Mail claimed that Jack Daniel's whiskey and Levi's jeans could also be hit with tariffs in an effort to make them seem more expensive and unappealing in the UK.

The European Union has lined up reciprocal tariffs for such products in the event of a trade war, so the UK may wish to do the same.

Harley Davidson motorbikes, Jack Daniel's whisky and Levi's jeans are among the main targets of EU tariffs, and the UK may decide to do similar (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

UK trade chief William Bain had previously warned LADbible that Trump's push on tariffs had brought in a 'new age of uncertainty', but encouraged companies to 'keep calm and carry on exporting'.

Ahead of the tariffs, people in a number of countries are already boycotting US goods, while experts have told the BBC that putting tariffs on the US service industry would be the 'nuclear' option.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that discussions with the US were 'intense' and ongoing

She said: "We obviously can’t keep a running commentary on different discussions that are taking place, but we have to always make sure that we’re acting in the national interest."

If tariffs come in, we'll have to see what the UK's response is.