Iron and Steel: Imports
(asked on 8th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the effect on the UK steel industry of the trend in the amount of steel imported to the UK from non-EU sources since the beginning of 2018; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 14th June 2018
The pattern of UK steel imports since 2018 varies significantly product by product.
In the first quarter of 2018, the volume of UK steel imports from non-EU countries was 658,000 tonnes. The volume of UK steel imports from non-EU countries in the first quarter of 2017 was 680,000 tonnes.
This was a 3.2 percent decrease.