united states is that we have seen things like harley—davidson, bopanna whiskey, from states like ken tuckeyreasons why they think it might be politically unfavourable for the us to press ahead with these tariffs. —— bourbon whiskey. that's if some of trump ‘s biggest supporters decide their local industries could be hurt. our business correspondentjonty bloom joins me now. from the british point of view, the steel industry here, how devastating could it be? it's a problem for the industry for two reasons, it sells a fairamount of industry for two reasons, it sells a fair amount of steel to the united states, hundreds of millions of pounds worth per year. but that's not the main problem. the point is america's but tariffs not only on european steel, but also on mexican, canadian and lots of other countries. the spare capacity has to find somewhere to be sold. that tends to force down international steel and aluminium prices, undercutting our own producers. it would be worse for germany, a much bigger exporter to the us than we are, but the flooding of cheap steel and aluminium around the wor