UK to double steel tariffs to 50% to save plants from collapse

Peter Kyle said the higher tariffs aimed to ‘equal out the unfair competitive behaviour elsewhere’. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

The UK is to double tariffs on Chinese and other foreign steel in a bid to save its remaining plants from collapse.

The new measures came weeks after bosses at Tata Steel in south Wales warned the government they had just two months to be saved.