Apparently no response from the British, except outrage
"Protection, Federation, and Union: The Global Impact of the McKinley Tariff upon the British Empire, 1890-1894"
http://www.academia.edu/292177/Protectio...mpire_1890-1894 In Shefield, even as the McKinley Tariff Act was pending, various manufacturers and workers met to demand retaliation, with their mayor sending a letter to every other mayor in the United Kingdom calling for action. A few months after the McKinley Acts new rates were implemented, Shefield firms had been forced to reduce wages, and the Act "sent thousands of workers into the streets at a blow...England is suffering frightfully...from her inability to offer the slightest resistance to hostile tariffs, even to one so unjust and so injurious as the MKinley Tariff."
