{"id":30281,"date":"2025-06-03T21:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uk-spared-from-donald-trumps-50-steel-and-aluminium-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T21:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:55:37","slug":"uk-spared-from-donald-trumps-50-steel-and-aluminium-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uk-spared-from-donald-trumps-50-steel-and-aluminium-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"UK spared from Donald Trump&#8217;s 50% steel and aluminium tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The UK has been spared from US President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order doubling steel and aluminium tariffs from 25% to 50%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The order signed by Trump on Tuesday evening raises import taxes for US firms buying from other countries &#8211; but the levy remains at 25% for the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The UK carve-out is dependent on <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c15ng4g5g0eo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">the US-UK Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD)<\/a> from 8 May, but the order also says the UK levy could rise to 50% if it does not comply with the terms of the EPD from 9 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A UK government spokesperson said it remains &#8220;committed to protecting British business and jobs across key sectors, including steel as part of our plan for change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg713y73plro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has been spared from US President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order doubling steel and aluminium tariffs from 25% to 50%. The order signed by Trump on Tuesday evening raises import taxes for US firms buying from other countries &#8211; but the levy remains at 25% for the UK. The UK carve-out is dependent on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[8520,2855,7327,3531,1694,4335],"class_list":["post-30281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-aluminium","tag-donald","tag-spared","tag-steel","tag-tariffs","tag-trumps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30283,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30281\/revisions\/30283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}