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Evening Standard
Helen Corbett

Minister insists UK steel tariff plans are ‘not very Donald Trump’

Blast furnaces at the British Steel site in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

A minister has rejected that UK plans to bring in new trade measures to boost domestic steel production are reminiscent of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The Government wants up to 50% of steel used in the UK to be made in the country, up from 30%.

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