{"id":8158,"date":"2016-03-16T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2016-03-16T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:10:01","slug":"toughen-up-on-chinese-steel-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=8158","title":{"rendered":"Toughen up on Chinese steel call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The UK government will leave itself open to accusations of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098selling British steel down the river\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 if it continues to block moves announced today (March 16) to tackle the dumping of cheap Chinese steel, said Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe proposals from the European Commission, aimed at accelerating anti-dumping measures and removing the so called lesser duty rule to allow higher anti-dumping tariffs, come ahead of tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s European Council on jobs, growth and competiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nGovernment ministers are under fire for blocking attempts to scrap the lesser duty rule while the crisis hit British steel industry battles for survival in the face of cheap Chinese imports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese are welcome moves from the European Commission to speed up and toughen up action on the dumping of cheap Chinese steel,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt would be shameful if government ministers continued to block higher tariffs which are essential to ensuring steelmaking in the UK has a future,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bA failure to do so will leave the government open to accusations of selling British steel down the river.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMinisters need to drop their nonsensical opposition to allow higher anti-dumping tariffs and back the European Commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to protect British jobs before it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too late.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government will leave itself open to accusations of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098selling British steel down the river\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 if it continues to block moves announced today (March 16) to tackle the dumping of cheap Chinese steel, said Unite. &nbsp; The proposals from the European Commission, aimed at accelerating anti-dumping measures and removing the so called lesser duty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[430,269],"wps_subtitle":"Govt urged to back anti-dumping plans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8159,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}