Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of steel exports to the US by volume that are specialist steel products that the US does not have capability to produce.
Total US imports of steel from the UK in 2017 were 351 thousand tonnes with a value of £360m. This represents 5% of UK steel production in 2017, in tonnage. We are assisting UK industry in working with US customers to build their cases for the exemption of individual products from the tariffs on US steel imports announced by President Trump.