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BRUSSELS bureaucrats are sleepwalking toward the destruction of British steelmaking, union reps warned yesterday, branding tiny tariffs on Chinese steel “a slap in the face.”
The EU has set provisional duties on Chinese imports of reinforced bar steel (rebar) at between 9.2 per cent and 13 per cent or a “reasonable profit level” of 1.65 per cent.
Steelworkers’ union Community leader Roy Rickhuss said it showed that the European commissioners “just don’t get it.”
The duty announcement followed a nine-month investigation into imports of rebar.
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
