Europe braces for further damage if products containing metal, such as windows and doors, are added to rolling list

The EU steel industry, already reeling from Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on imports, is bracing itself for further damage after the US opened the possibility of a rolling list of “derivative” products that could be subject to tariffs including windows and doors with some metal.

In August the US listed 407 product categories as “derivative” inclusions, ranging from wind turbines, mobile cranes and bulldozers to rail cars and furniture.

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A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’

A US private prisons operator will receive $157m a year to run Australia’s offshore processing regime in Nauru – currently holding just over 100 people – after the government quietly expanded its contract by more than $350m to three-quarters-of-a-billion dollars.

The two-year extension without prior public notification, or scrutiny of the contract, has raised allegations of “gross mismanagement” and a process “run out of control” from parliamentarians and government integrity experts.

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