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"Mr President, in my constituency, the North-East of England, we have been hit incredibly hard by the crisis in the steel industry. It has cost thousands of jobs in Redcar directly and thousands more in the supply chain. It is a complex issue, but one of the key components is Chinese dumping on the world market.
So in terms of trade defence instruments, I suppose the decision that is facing the UK in 15 days’ time is, do we do these things ourselves in the UK or should they continue to be done at EU level? And indeed, would it even change anything because the EU anti-dumping rules are very much based on the WTO anti-dumping rules. And you know what, I agree to an extent with my north-east colleague, Jude Kirton Darling, who said that we have been far too slow.
But you know what? If the UK had the power to deal with these things ourselves straight away, we could not hide behind the European Council. We could not hide behind anything that is happening here. We would be able to take a decision straightforwardly and immediately for ourselves, rather than have to negotiate a position with 27 other countries, and actually the UK is going in a slightly different direction. America dealt with this very quickly. It slapped a huge tariff on imported steel and it was able to protect its industries. We should have been able to do the same.
If we were an independent, self-governing nation again in the United Kingdom, one of two things would happen – either the Conservative Government would take action, it would protect our industry, it would put on those tariffs for itself and we would save those jobs in the UK. Or the government would sit on its hands, refuse to help its own industry, in which case we could jolly well vote them back out again in a couple of years’ time at the next general election. That is democracy."@en1
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