United States Tariffs: Steel and Aluminium Debate

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Department: Department for International Trade
Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Sir Lindsay Hoyle)
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Unfortunately points of order come at the end of the statement.

Nic Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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In 2002, when the US Administration last did this, US economists estimated that it cost the US economy 200,000 jobs, and the Administration had to back down when the EU took them to the WTO. Will the Secretary of State reassure this House, and steelworkers in my constituency and elsewhere, that the UK will argue for the strongest possible safeguard measures within the EU’s response?