In Great Britain, the rescue of the metallurgical industry was instructed by the builders

The steel industry in Great Britain, almost completely crushed by the "green" policy of David Cameron's cabinet, will be rescued by the country's construction corporations. At least such a strange idea in the spirit of "drowning yourself in the marsh of another" was voiced by the deputies of the British parliament.

As reported in The Telegraph, a group of deputies sent an open letter addressed to the owners of construction companies in the country with a request to abandon purchases of Chinese rolled metal products in favor of domestic metal products.

In their letter, a dozen MPs said that the UK steel industry, which accounts for more than £ 9.5 billion of the country's GDP, is in a critical situation. At the same time, the people's deputies called the situation at the largest metallurgical plant Redkar, stopped by the Thai company SSI, “heartbreaking”.

Now the deputies, apparently having poorly understood the reasons for the systemic crisis of the British metallurgy, want to force the construction sector to sign a "Charter" with metallurgists obliging them to purchase steel exclusively from factories located in England. As you know, the construction sector mainly buys such types of rolled metal as rebar and wire rod. In Yekaterinburg, for example, long rolled products can be purchased from UralMetallInvest http://urmet66.ru/produkciya/sortovojj-prokat/armatura /.

Recall that the share of imported metal products in the UK market does not exceed 10 percent, with the bulk of it accounted for by China. Naturally, after the shutdown of the country's largest metallurgical enterprise, the share of imports will at least double.

UK steelmakers are shutting down due to unprofitable steelmaking in the country after electricity prices rose 50 percent, they added the cost of buying CO2 emission limits six times higher than European rates, and the price of steel products fell 50 percent.

Apparently, while the British authorities sort out the causes of the crisis in the steel industry, there will be nothing to save there.