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Helen Corbett

Business Secretary pledges steel tariff announcement ‘as soon as possible’

Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

Business Secretary Peter Kyle has said that tariff relief for UK steel is being negotiated and that he will “make sure that we have an announcement as soon as possible”.

The UK and US signed a trade deal in June that reduced tariffs on car and aerospace imports to the US, but failed to agree on terms for British steel, leaving tariffs on it at 25%.

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