Britain’s industry body UK Steel has already warned such tariffs would be a “devastating blow” to an already crippled sector fearful of more job cuts.
The new rule would close loopholes and eliminate exemptions, a White House official said.
Trump said he applied the 25% rate to both metals “so that everyone can understand exactly what it means.”
Separately, Peter Mandelson, Britain’s newly appointed ambassador to the US, said the UK must respect Donald Trump’s “strong and clear mandate for change,” amid questions over a response to global tariffs.
Trump later said he would give “great consideration” to Australia’s request for an exemption to the steel tariffs due to that country’s trade deficit with the US.
Lord Mandelson, in an interview with the BBC, said Keir Starmer’s government can “always make our views known privately and directly” but that it must “understand what drives him”.
But he added he did not believe Trump’s tariffs “are actually directly targeted at us.”
“We have a strong relationship that enables us to influence the president and his policies where necessary, and it certainly should not affect our ability to work well together, and that’s what I intend remains the case.”
Britain exported 166,433 tonnes of steel to the US in 2023, the last full year for which figures are available.
The US is the industry’s second-largest export market after the EU, although the Government said it only accounted for 5% of UK steel exports in 2023.
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