Promoting Welsh Trade with the United States of America

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 6 March 2018.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 2:00, 6 March 2018

First Minister, the leader of the UKIP group has already raised the issue that President Trump tweeted about the trade tariffs on steel. Unlike him, I and my constituents—many are steelworkers—have deep concerns about the content of that tweet and the implications it has for the steel industry. Will you raise as a Government with the UK Government as much as possible the actions to be taken within the UK to protect the steel industry because the cost to the UK steel industry is unacceptable? It might be 10 per cent going out to the United States because of Tata, but that 10 per cent has major financial implications for steel and implications for Port Talbot. Will you therefore protect the steel industry as much as you can and make sure the UK Government does so and works with the EU this time, rather than hinders it, in actually addressing this issue?