{"id":417476,"date":"2025-09-12T03:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:51:13","slug":"uk-and-us-restart-steel-talks-ahead-of-trumps-state-visit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417476\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and US restart steel talks ahead of Trump\u2019s state visit \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/cuts-to-us-tariffs-on-british-steel-coming-pretty-soon-says-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump visited Scotland in July<\/a>, he said a reduction in his tariffs on U.K. steel and aluminum would come \u201cpretty soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But five months after the May deal was signed, the U.K. is still lobbying U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to get the White House to put those quotas in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe longer this goes on, the more uncertain it is, the more damaging it is, the less likely we are going to get growth, and the more threat there is to the jobs that are associated,\u201d said Chris Southworth, head of the International Chamber of Commerce UK. <\/p>\n<p>There is \u201ca great opportunity\u201d to conclude the steel talks on the fringes of the state visit, Southworth added. \u201cWe need a solution quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melt and pour rules<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has strict rules on imports of steel and aluminum, meaning the metals must be melted and poured in their country of origin to qualify for tariff relief.<\/p>\n<p>But the requirements have been a tall order for Britain\u2019s steel sector after its largest exporter to the U.S. \u2014 Tata Steel UK\u2019s Port Talbot steel mill \u2014 shut last September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Trump visited Scotland in July, he said a reduction in his tariffs on U.K. steel and aluminum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1212,32,1396,2915,1214,475,730,806,807,11582,809,712,811,1218,479,3053,1201,20587,16,15,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-417476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-aluminum","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-dumping-duties","11":"tag-exclusive","12":"tag-exports","13":"tag-imports","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-industry","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-lobbying","18":"tag-negotiations","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-steel","22":"tag-tariffs","23":"tag-the-netherlands","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-u-k-trade","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115189297500980358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}