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News: 1999

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	Policy uncertainties threaten investment
	Remarks made by Peter Siddall, UK Steel President, to the association's Annual Forum. Press release and full text. 9.12.99.
	Climate Change Levy: Assessment following Pre-Budget Statement
	The government has gone some way to meeting the industry's concerns, but more still needs to be done to achieve a solution that both reduces CO₂ and preserves industrial competitiveness. 19.11.99.
	44 Tonne Lorries
	Submission to the Commission for Integrated Transport. 15.11.99.
	Climate Change Levy: Chancellor's Pre-Budget Statement
	Text of a press release issued following the Chancellor's pre-Budget statement on 9th November 1999.
	Trade law implementation must be harmonised
	The disparities in the way different countries apply their anti-dumping laws distort trade. Speech given to Metal Bulletin's 1st World Steel Trade Congress on 8th November 1999.
	UK could become net steel importer for first time since 1980 steel strike
	Text of a press release issued following the Monetary Policy Committee's decision to raise interest rates by 0.25%. 4th November 1999.
	Budget 2000 should focus on sustainable growth for manufacturing
	Joint submission by 22 trade associations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on measures he should announce in his Pre-Budget Report. (19.10.99)
	Manufacturing's case for lower interest rates
	Letter written to Monetary Policy Committee by a group of 20 trade associations from the manufacturing sector. (1st October 1999)
	Sustainable Development and the Climate Change Levy
	Speech made to Labour Party Conference fringe meeting on 27th September 1999
	Climate Change Levy - competitive impact on steel industry
	Report by Arthur D Little Ltd comparing the effects on EU steel industries of existing and proposed energy taxes. The proposed Climate Change Levy would impose a higher burden on the UK steel industry than in any other country. (Aug. 99)
	Climate Change Levy will destroy jobs
	Report by Business Strategies Ltd on the employment effects - covering all sectors - of the proposed Climate Change Levy. (23.7.99)
	EU environmental legislation, trade, EU enlargement, state aid
	Copy of briefing given to newly-elected UK members of the European Parliament on 14th July 1999.
	Climate Change Levy: Update
	Parliamentary Briefing. Summary of UK Steel's response to HM Customs and Excise consultation document. (25.5.99)
	Climate Change Levy
	Parliamentary Briefing providing an objective assessment of the impact of the proposed Climate Change Levy on the UK steel industry. Fiscal neutrality at a company level - not at the national level - is essential for the levy to work. (30.4.99)

	Climate Change Levy could damage steel
	Press release (29.03.99) following a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minster on climate change levy
	The Budget: energy taxation on business
	Press release issued in reaction to the Chancellor's announcement of an energy tax on business (09.03.99).
	UK stainless steel wire industry at risk from Indian and Korean imports
	Fact sheet: UK Steel calls on the British government to back the European Commission's proposed action against these subsidised imports.(17.02.99)

	1999 Budget
	Press release (11.2.99) summarising UK Steel's annual Budget submission. Focuses on energy taxation.
	Lead in steels: the End of Life Vehicles Directive
	The current draft EU directive as it affects leaded steels would do more damage than good to the environment. Summary and full text of briefing material prepared for the European Parliament.