Japan Free Trade Agreement Debate

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Department: Department for International Trade

Japan Free Trade Agreement

Stephen Kinnock Excerpts
Monday 14th September 2020

(3 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Kinnock Portrait Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State mentioned Nissan; of course, there is an intrinsic link from Nissan to UK steel, which is intrinsically linked into the talks with the United States. Will she guarantee that President Trump’s completely unrealistic and unreasonable section 232 tariffs on UK steel will be removed from the trade negotiations with the United States as a precondition for those negotiations to proceed?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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We are in active negotiations with the United States, and one of the things I have been very clear about is that we need to see those unfair section 232 tariffs on our steel removed.