Plan to slash US steel tariffs shelved hours before Donald Trump’s UK visit

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Plan to slash US steel tariffs shelved hours before Donald Trump’s UK visit

Ministers had hoped to finalise deal this week that would reduce president’s steel tariffs to zero

A long-coveted deal to slash US steel and aluminium tariffs to zero has been shelved on the eve of Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain, the Guardian has learned.

Ministers were poised to finalise a deal this week that would have reduced Trump’s tariffs on British steel to zero, according to government officials.

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