{"id":227539,"date":"2025-10-27T04:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227539\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:16:06","slug":"britain-seeks-eu-steel-pact-to-counter-china-and-swerve-tariffs-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227539\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain seeks EU steel pact to counter China \u2014 and swerve tariffs \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea under consideration is for the U.K. and EU to form a Western steel alliance \u2014 potentially including Washington \u2014 that would align tariff policies and grant members preferential tariffs on steel trade.<\/p>\n

A senior EU official said<\/a> earlier this month that the bloc had \u201cno other choice\u201d but to defend its industry, warning Europe was \u201cin deep trouble because of this problem of overcapacities.” Still, the official left the door open to talks with London, urging both sides to sit down to negotiate.<\/p>\n

One other EU official, granted anonymity to speak freely about ongoing talks, said the concept of a steel \u201cclub\u201d has been circulating for \u201cquite some time\u201d but is now looking \u201cmore appealing.\u201d They added that the EU and U.K. already cooperate in multilateral forums such as the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity.<\/p>\n

The two sides have already agreed to align their upcoming carbon taxes on imports of steel and other products produced through highly polluting manufacturing processes.<\/p>\n

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer called for stronger coordination against Chinese steel earlier this month, warning that the \u201ccurrent international trade rules are inadequate\u201d and questioning \u201cthe political will of foreign members to take action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer called for stronger coordination against Chinese steel earlier this month. | Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Britain currently sends half of its steel exports to the EU, making the bloc\u2019s upcoming tariffs a serious threat to U.K. producers.<\/p>\n

UK Steel Director Gareth Stace said the government\u2019s \u201cfocus must be on securing essential U.K. carve outs in the EU\u2019s quotas, and tightening its own trade defenses.\u201d But the lobby group boss added that a broader alliance could help to resolve global overcapacity issues and keep heavily subsidized imports out of Britain.<\/p>\n

A U.K. government spokesperson said: \u201cWe are continuing our engagement with the EU following their recent announcement. We are also working with international partners on solutions which can address wider overcapacity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea under consideration is for the U.K. and EU to form a Western steel alliance \u2014 potentially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[891,144,59,57,58,2693,555,467,50,13256,2696,156,426,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-227539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-china","tag-exports","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-imports","tag-industry","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-overcapacity","tag-steel","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}