Fears Tata Steel could be excluded from Starmer’s Trump tariff deal

UK ministers working to secure carve-out from 50% rate for Indian-owned Port Talbot works

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Ministers are reportedly working to stop the UK’s biggest steelmaker, Tata Steel, from being left out of tariff-free access to the US under Keir Starmer’s trade deal with Donald Trump.

The prime minister said on Wednesday that he hoped his deal with the US – which has been agreed but not signed – would come into effect “in just a couple of weeks”, after the US president decided to pause 50% tariffs on British steel and aluminium products for five weeks.