When President Trump signed the executive order that would reinstitute tariffs on steel and aluminium from his first term, his rationale was clear.
“Foreign nations have been flooding the United States market with cheap steel and aluminium,” a statement from the White House said. These imports, often subsidised by foreign governments, were weakening the American domestic economy and threatening to impair its national security, it added.
So it was a surprise for Neil and Tara Quick, the founders of the Nottinghamshire-based Charlie Oven, to find that their luxury charcoal cookers would also face a 25 per tariff under the new regime, because they happened to be made of steel.
Neil and Tara Quick, the founders of the Nottinghamshire-based Charlie Oven, are facing “uncertainty about pricing”
MATT AUSTIN
“The American market is important to us; it’s a significant market. This all of a sudden
