Department for Business and Trade written question – answered at on 12 June 2026.
Jonathan Davies
Labour, Mid Derbyshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support his Department is offering to protect businesses from tariffs where it is not possible to source steel products domestically in the context of the Steel Trade Measures.
Chris McDonald
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero), Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The measure has been designed to strike a balance between securing domestic steelmaking while maintaining secure supply for downstream users.
It is designed to only cover requirements that can be met in the UK. Where not feasible for technical reasons, quotas have been designed to allow for sufficient imports to be available to downstream users.
To ease short-term impacts, we are introducing a transitional arrangement under which the new measure would not apply to goods agreed under contract before 14 March 2026 and imported between 1 July and 30 September 2026. Further details are available on GOV.UK.
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