Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what mechanisms businesses should use to differentiate between steel that can and cannot be made in the UK.

The Government has published a provisional list of product codes covered by the steel trade measure on gov.uk. This will be updated shortly, following ongoing engagement with industry.

The measure is designed to only cover steel requirements that can be made in the UK. In some instances, this is not feasible for technical reasons, for example where single product codes contain different sizes of steel products with some of the sizes produced in the UK and potential for steel to be imported and then cut-down. In such cases, quotas are being designed with the aim of allowing for sufficient imports.