{"id":36345,"date":"2025-03-18T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/uk-steelmakers-say-trumps-tariffs-already-driving-away-business\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:23:32","slug":"uk-steelmakers-say-trumps-tariffs-already-driving-away-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/uk-steelmakers-say-trumps-tariffs-already-driving-away-business\/","title":{"rendered":"UK steelmakers say Trump\u2019s tariffs already driving away business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata and British Steel tell MPs their customers are seeking alternative suppliers or asking for compensation<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s two biggest steel companies have said that they have already lost customers in the US and are bracing for a flood of cheap imports after Donald Trump imposed steep metals tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The bosses of Tata Steel and British Steel on Tuesday told MPs on parliament\u2019s business committee that customers were looking for alternative suppliers of products in order to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/10\/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs\">25% tariffs on steel and aluminium<\/a> that came into force last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/mar\/18\/uk-steelmakers-say-trumps-tariffs-already-driving-away-business\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata and British Steel tell MPs their customers are seeking alternative suppliers or asking for compensation The UK\u2019s two biggest steel companies have said that they have already lost customers in the US and are bracing for a flood of cheap imports after Donald Trump imposed steep metals tariffs. The bosses of Tata Steel and &#8230; <a title=\"UK steelmakers say Trump\u2019s tariffs already driving away business\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/uk-steelmakers-say-trumps-tariffs-already-driving-away-business\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UK steelmakers say Trump\u2019s tariffs already driving away business\">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-36345","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\/36345","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=36345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}