aleem maqbool reporting there.our business editor simon jack explained what affect the tariffs would have in the uk. the uk xbox 315 million tonnes of steel to the us every year, about 7% of our production total, it is a catastrophic but it isn'tjust uk steel but canadian, italian, german, mexican, it all would have ended up in the us market bed now is to find another home and bring down global prices, that will worry the 30,000 people who work in the uk steel industry. the us is a country where we've had to forge a close training partnership after brexit, thanks to the special relationship. on this evidence, many people will be wondering what that special relationship is. while president trump was putting up trade barriers with some allies, he was trying to build bridges again with north korea — saying today that talks about a possible summit next month between himself and kim jong—un are going well. the us secretary of state mike pompeo, who's been meeting one of president kim's closest aides, has said the two co

jane: aleem maqbool reporting . a brief time ago, the new eu lassiter to the u.s., david o'sullivan, join my colleague katty kay. we consider the imposition of the tariffs wtogal under the video -- law. we think they are unjustified. our exports are not posing a problem to national security or the economy. under wto rules, we are entitled to impose rebalancing tariffs from the united states to europe, and that is the option we intend to use in order to use the means available to us to demonstrate our unhappiness with this decision and to ensure that we defend european interests. katty: the things you have talked about hitting -- bourbon, levi's, orange juice from florida -- come from states that are politically sensitive in the united states. is that the aim here? amb. o'sullivan: it is a much longer list than that. those other things people have jumped on as having symbolism. driving force is to hit things which are not indispensable to the manufacturing process in europe. that is why these products have been selec

here's our north america correspondent, aleem maqbool. now it's time for action.ica and its great companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. an ad for us steel asking the president to deliver on its election promise to save jobs deliver on its election promise to savejobs in the industry, but to many the way he's done that looks like the opening salvo in a trade war between europe and the us that could have far—reaching consequences. from midnight tonight, large tariffs will have to be paid on any steel or aluminium imports coming to the us from the eu. your bobbin there's overproduction of steel and there's overcapacity throughout the world, and so we have needed to deal with in a very global manner. you can't just needed to deal with in a very global manner. you can'tjust deal with it dealing with one country. surrounded by steelworkers donald trump actually announced that tariffs for most countries in march, but also exemptions for mexico, canada and the eu. he is today scrapped those exemptions. the workers who poured their souls into building thi