Pressure grows to extend UK steel import quotas

Producers fear losing 150m in annual sales unless government keeps steel safeguards'

The government is facing pressure from the UK steel industry and Labour to extend metal import limits brought in after Brexit, after a warning that a flood of products could cost British producers 150m in lost sales.

The international trade minister, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, must decide by 30 June whether to keep steel safeguards" set out last year or remove the import limits on five categories of products, which include tin mill products, steel quarto plates and wire rod.