{"id":6238,"date":"2026-06-18T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:31:39","slug":"steel-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"Steel Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6238\" class=\"elementor elementor-6238\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58e1c15 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"58e1c15\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ce71bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ce71bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"719\">Sir John Whittingdale MP raises concerns in the House of Commons about the impact of steel tariffs on businesses, particularly those relying on importing steel grades not produced domestically. In the debate, he asks the Government what assessment has been made of these specialist steel products and seeks reassurance for companies, including C&amp;M Precision Ltd in his Maldon constituency, facing increased costs as a result of tariff measures.<\/p><p data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"1073\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The discussion focuses on the challenges facing UK businesses that require specific steel grades unavailable from domestic suppliers, and the Government\u2019s approach to balancing tariff measures with the needs of industry. Sir John highlights the importance of ensuring that companies are not unfairly affected where there is no UK alternative available.<\/p><p data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"1073\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Read below his question to the government:<\/p><p data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"1073\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong>John Whittingdale Conservative, Maldon:\u00a0 <\/strong>&#8220;Can Minister state what assessment he has made of the grades of steel that are simply not produced in this country? What is his message to companies such as C&amp;M Precision Ltd in my Constituency, and all those mentioned this afternoon, that face an immediate increase in their costs, because they have absolutely no alternative except to import their steel?&#8221;<\/p><p data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"1073\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong>Chris McDonald Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade):\u00a0 <\/strong>&#8220;The Government have done a very detailed assessment of the steels that are not made and could not be made in the UK. Unfortunately, because of how the categorisations are set, some steel grades are swept up in a tariff measure along with other steels that are made in the UK. The quotas are designed to deal with that, so this is really about getting the quota level right, and that is very much part of the discussion we are having today\u2014but I do understand the problem.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale questions the Government on steel tariffs, raising concerns about companies in his constituency facing increased costs when importing steel grades not produced in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,99],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches","tag-britishsteel","tag-ukmanufacturing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}