{"id":121943,"date":"2025-11-06T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121943\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:49:16","slug":"merz-backs-eu-tariff-plan-to-help-europes-ailing-steelmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121943\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz Backs EU Tariff Plan to Help Europe\u2019s Ailing Steelmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz threw his support behind proposed European Union tariffs to shield the continent\u2019s ailing steelmakers and reiterated his government\u2019s commitment to securing steel production and jobs in Europe\u2019s biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">After talks Thursday with industry executives and labor officials in Berlin, the conservative leader\u2019s ruling coalition also called for an immediate halt to steel imports from Russia as part of EU sanctions against Moscow and reiterated support for the European Commission\u2019s efforts for \u201crapid relief\u201d from US tariffs on steel and aluminum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz threw his support behind proposed European Union tariffs to shield the continent\u2019s ailing steelmakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31337,138,32978,219,2024,15469,266,3215,648,232,3678,111,139,69,135,8105,34207],"class_list":{"0":"post-121943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economic-sanctions","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-parliament","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-imports","16":"tag-industries","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-labor","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-russia","24":"tag-steel-industry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}