Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds is set to meet JCB chief executive Graeme Macdonald after the company raised urgent concerns about the impact of new US tariffs on British goods.
Hundreds of UK-made products containing steel or aluminium became subject to American levies over the weekend, with JCB among the manufacturers warning that the move has triggered significant disruption.
Mr Macdonald told the Sunday Times there was “chaos at the US ports right now” as goods were held up while customs officials scrambled to interpret the new rules.
“They need to get a deal done quickly because this is very damaging to British industry,” he said. “This has blindsided everybody – us, the UK Government, and certainly US customs. There’s a huge backlog of imported goods in every port now in the US.”
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