12th Mar 2025 12:36
(Alliance News) - Keir Starmer has said the UK would keep open the option of retaliatory measures after Donald Trump hit steel and aluminium imports with 25% tariffs.
Jobs could be at risk in the beleaguered British steel industry after the UK failed to secure an exemption to the US president's global tariffs on the metal imports.
The EU responded by announcing trade counter-measures, hitting American goods with retaliatory tariffs, but the prime minister resisted calls for the UK to immediately hit back.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Starmer said: "I'm disappointed to see global tariffs in relation to steel and aluminium.
"We will take a pragmatic approach."
The UK is "negotiating an economic deal which covers and will include tariffs if we succeed," he told MPs.
"But we will keep all options on the table."
By David Hughes and Nina Lloyd
Press Association: Finance
source: PA
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