Just to add................. .......

The Tory government are against the EU imposing higher trade tariffs on Chinese steel... as a result, UK steel can't currently compete on price with steel imported from China... resulting in the loss of UK jobs.

Posted By: Larry Hagman on March 30th 2016 at 22:15:17

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British Steel Industry... what should be done? (n/m) (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Mar 30, 21:25:17
- On Newsnight "Nobody available from the government available!, Tories hold the record! (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Mar 30, 22:58:49
- Just to add........................ (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Mar 30, 22:15:17
  - China mills at 2/3rds capacity (NCFC) - Ken Breadstick, Mar 30, 22:41:06
    - USA charges huge import tariffs on Chinese steel, UK govt against doing so (n/m) (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Mar 30, 22:44:41
      - No...they tax 5 companies highly not all Chinese steel. (NCFC) - Sonic, Mar 30, 22:50:12
        
        USA has a tax on the corrosion-resistant steel from China (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Mar 30, 23:04:47
        
        So you agree and have stopped making out its on all steel (n/m) (NCFC) - Sonic, Mar 30, 23:08:04
        
        UK gov have been against higher EU tariffs on any Chinese steel (n/m) (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Mar 30, 23:10:56
      - I would have supported greater import tariffs on Chinese steel... as the USA has done... (n/m) (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Mar 30, 22:48:18
  - Increasing the tariff wouldn't help. It would just create retaliatory tariffs and (NCFC) - Sonic, Mar 30, 22:32:25
    - Works in the USA............... (n/m) (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Mar 30, 22:40:15
    - Details.. (n/m) (NCFC) - lurd, Mar 30, 22:37:49
- Loads of mills shutting in China the source of over capacity problem (NCFC) - Ken Breadstick, Mar 30, 21:56:09
- Nigel. (NCFC) - bird table, Mar 30, 21:48:01
  - Cloudbusting (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, Mar 30, 22:36:13
- Off shore it. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, Mar 30, 21:46:06
  - It would sink you fool - steel is heavy (n/m) (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Mar 30, 21:47:16
    - You could make it boat shaped. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, Mar 30, 22:18:35
- scrap the environmental taxes (NCFC) - CWC, Mar 30, 21:33:44
- Crowdfunding (n/m) (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Mar 30, 21:28:56

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