Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the Government stating that it intends to exempt steel produced in the EU from the UK’s safeguard measures in order to achieve reciprocal arrangements for UK-produced steel sold in the EU.
The Government’s priority is to ensure that, at the end of the transition period, domestic industry retains appropriate trade remedy protections. The Department for International Trade continues to seek to engage with the European Commission on the mutual application of steel safeguard measures, with the aim of preserving traditional trade flows and providing as much continuity to industry as possible at the end of the transition period.