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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

UK steelmakers say Trump’s tariffs already driving away business

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Tata’s Port Talbot steelworks. Trump’s tariffs have added to pressures on the global steel industry after slowing demand in China. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena/The Guardian

The UK’s two biggest steel companies have said they have already lost customers in the US and are bracing for a flood of cheap imports after Donald Trump imposed steep metals tariffs.

The bosses of Tata Steel and British Steel on Tuesday told MPs on the Commons business and trade committee that customers were looking for alternative suppliers of products to avoid 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium that came into force last week.

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