{"id":748853,"date":"2026-08-25T03:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748853\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:50:20","slug":"tata-workers-on-light-duties-as-imported-steel-floods-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748853\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata workers on &#8216;light duties&#8217; as imported steel floods market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows changes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/uks-steel-trade-measure-from-1-july-2026\/uks-steel-trade-measure-from-1-july-2026\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tariffs levied on foreign steel, external<\/a> which meant imported products are subject to quotas, with some products being subject to taxes, making them more expensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Concerns were raised about the impact new steel taxes could have on manufacturing and engineering companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Community Union president Andrew Gutteridge said there had been substantial increases to galvanised steel imports from Vietnam, South Korea and India, since the move in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it had reduced Llanwern&#8217;s UK market to just 25% and meant that workers were having a lot of downtime with production lines that are not constantly running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the moment everybody is coming into work,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tata is still making massive losses so the concern from the workforce is how long can it continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gutteridge said it was heartbreaking to see imported galvanised steel from Vietnam coming into Newport Docks when the plant is just 10 minutes away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He suggested a reduction in EU quota access which he said was placing additional pressure on the UK&#8217;s steel operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I&#8217;m hoping the government will either come up with some funding or something to sort these tariffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is massively worrying concerns for Llanwern and the other downstream businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It follows changes to the tariffs levied on foreign steel, external which meant imported products are subject to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748853","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=748853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}