EU plan to match Trump steel tariffs spurs ‘existential threat’ to UK steel industry

Starmer says UK in discussions with EU over Brussels plan to double import tariff to 50%, which unions warn could kill UK steel industry

The EU has announced it will match Donald Trump's steel tariffs, doubling levies on imports to 50% in a decision condemned as an existential threat" to the industry in the UK.

With 80% of British exports going to the EU, the change poses the UK steel industry's biggest ever crisis, according to the lobby group representing the sector, while unions said they could kill off the industry.