Urgently review & adjust steel import quota & tariff changes - effective 01/07

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openDepartment for Business and Tradeby Giles ThroupOpened 15 May 2026

Background

Either, the timeline for these changes needs extending The 60% quota reduction needs reducing The 50% tariff applied after quarterly quota exhaustion needs significant reduction The impacted commodity codes needs review & reduction Or a combination of some/all of the above

Additional details

UK steel manufacture & infrastructure, is not immediately capable of satisfying the additional demand which the quota & tariff changes are intended to effect Current changes will have a profound impact on all UK industry, where they have any exposure to the commodity codes affected Thousands of UK jobs directly jeopardised by current legislation

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Source: UK Government & Parliament Petitions service. Petition ID: 767467.