Tata Steel to close Port Talbot blast furnaces and replace with electric-arc.

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On 22/01/2024 at 10:48, IWCR said:

The  coal  mine  serving  Port  Talbot  closed  last  year,  still  viable  but  not  wanted  by  the  Welsh  government.

Now  with  Iron  Ore  and  the  coal  both  needed  to  be  imported  the  closure  of  the  blast  furnaces  was  inevitable.

Government  Policy,  export  the  pollution.

 

Pete

 

Been happening since the 1980s

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23 hours ago, admiles said:

 

We have a very easy and effective way to control the import (dumping) of "cheap" Chinese steel into the UK. Anti-dumping duties.  Widely in use already to increase the price of imported steel to the point it becomes unattractive to buyers.  Of course that also has the side effect of increasing the cost of steel products but I'm sure the average "Joe" won't mind paying a bit more to support British jobs....won't they?

 

Incidentally the "B" event has made it easier for "us" to implement such controls. Of course the EU also use Anti-dumping duties for the same reason.  

That goes against 'free trade' rules, though. If our government attempted that, it could in theory, at the minimum, find itself being sued under WTO rules on restriction of trade grounds

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Just now, 62613 said:

That goes against 'free trade' rules, though. If our government attempted that, it could in theory, at the minimum, find itself being sued under WTO rules on restriction of trade grounds

Anti-dumping duties are in wide use already both by the UK and EU member states so perfectly legal to use.

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21 hours ago, westernfan said:

Along with the jobs, the prospects and the futures of the workers. All so Sunak can beat his chest and say "What a good boy I am" in making Britain a world leader in reducing emissions. (Not global emissions, because the same pollution is still produced, just somewhere else.) In fact, every time this sort of action is taken, MORE pollution is generated in transporting the imports we need to replace what we once produced at home, coal being a prime example.

Do you think that, as Britain was in on the industrial pollution game from its very beginning, 250 years ago, that we should just forget it? The same could apply to most "Developed" economies