UK and US in talks to remove ‘damaging’ steel tariffs

The Trade Secretary said she was working with the US to remove steel tariffs on both sides of the Atlantic (Danny Lawson/PA)

The UK and US are in talks to remove “damaging tariffs” from British steel exports, the International Trade Secretary has said.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan is understood to have met several times with US trade representative Katherine Tai in a bid to find a solution that lifts tariffs on steel and aluminium produced on both sides of the Atlantic.