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Evening Standard
Rhiannon James

Business Secretary pressed to secure US trade deal following Trump steel tariffs

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has been pressed to secure a trade deal with the US after Donald Trump hit steel and aluminium imports with 25% tariffs.

Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith said it is a “colossal failure” of the Government that the UK is not exempt from the US president’s global tariffs on the metal imports.

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