{"id":35735,"date":"2025-03-11T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/starmer-to-avoid-immediate-counter-tariffs-if-trump-puts-levies-on-uk-steel\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:17:09","slug":"starmer-to-avoid-immediate-counter-tariffs-if-trump-puts-levies-on-uk-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/starmer-to-avoid-immediate-counter-tariffs-if-trump-puts-levies-on-uk-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer to avoid immediate counter-tariffs if Trump puts levies on UK steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British PM has discussed issue with president, as US trade war with Canada escalates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/mar\/11\/growth-fears-grip-markets-us-recession-hurt-dollar-confidence-vacancies-ftse-pound-yen-business-live-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keir Starmer has said he will not hit back with immediate counter-tariffs if Donald Trump imposes 25% levies on all steel and aluminium imports to the US on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister discussed the issue with Trump in a phone call on Monday and is prepared for the tariffs to be imposed at 4am UK time on 12 March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/mar\/11\/keir-starmer-donald-trump-tariffs-uk-steel-us-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British PM has discussed issue with president, as US trade war with Canada escalates Business live \u2013 latest updates Keir Starmer has said he will not hit back with immediate counter-tariffs if Donald Trump imposes 25% levies on all steel and aluminium imports to the US on Wednesday. The prime minister discussed the issue with &#8230; <a title=\"Starmer to avoid immediate counter-tariffs if Trump puts levies on UK steel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/starmer-to-avoid-immediate-counter-tariffs-if-trump-puts-levies-on-uk-steel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Starmer to avoid immediate counter-tariffs if Trump puts levies on UK steel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}