Exclusive: UK to begin backdoor push to get Joe Biden to dump Trump's steel tariffs

Sam Lowe, trade expert at the the Centre for European Reform think tank, said the Biden administration would soon have to conduct a wider discussion about how it deals with Trump-era trade policies.

“It is possible the UK gets excluded from the [steel tariffs], but the US has to have that conversation themselves,” he said.

“I don’t think Biden will get rid of them entirely, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were left on China, but the conversation will be whether they get rid of them for key allies like the UK.”