The UK is concerned about US announcement on steel and aluminium tariffs, Theresa May said during a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump.

“The Prime Minister raised our deep concern at the President’s forthcoming announcement on steel and aluminium tariffs, noting that multilateral action was the only way to resolve the problem of global overcapacity in all parties’ interests,” the statement reads.

Earlier this week Trump announced plans to levy a 25 percent tax on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports to protect U.S. national security interests.

In addition, May and Trump “discussed Syria and the appalling humanitarian situation in Eastern Ghouta”. The two leaders “greed it was a humanitarian catastrophe, and that the overwhelming responsibility for the heart-breaking human suffering lay with the Syrian regime and Russia, as the regime’s main backer.”

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