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Punitive import tariffs. Which the Tories refused to let the EU implement, on the basis that TATA would stop making cars in the UK if they did so or something.
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Some degree of protectionism I guess- state driven infrastructure projects that a) need a lot of steel and b) said steel can only be purchased in the UK. You could come up with a carbon cost requirement for the steel that would rule out any that came from outside the UK's borders.
MrDrem
Dammit
@bq
When the entire global market is dominated by a totalitarian statewith the avowed aim of destroying western industry using forced cheap labour to produce a steel surplus, this is inevitable. This is how China does business.
I don't have a clue how you could prevent it.