(S+) Manager Anne-Marie Großmann on the German steel industry: "I think customs duties are more secondary"

Steel was one of the first products to be subject to customs duties by Donald Trump, but German steel contractor Anne-Marie Großmann sees more pressing problems for the economy. And she loves gas from Russia.

The manager and co-owner of the steel company Georgsmarienhütte, Anne-Marie Grossmann, sees high energy prices as a greater threat to German industry than Donald Trump's trade policy. “I think tariffs are of secondary importance, it depends on competitiveness,” she told the “Spiegel.” However, the managing partner of the GMH Group, to which Georgsmarienhütte belongs, also explained that tariffs to this extent “make access to important internatio…