{"id":18961,"date":"2025-08-10T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18961"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:03:31","slug":"trumps-trade-deal-is-killing-a-british-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18961","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s trade deal is killing a British industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Vivergo\u2019s plant is now at risk of closure due to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/what-is-and-isnt-included-in-the-uk-us-trade-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the U.K.-U.S. trade deal<\/a>, which allows 1.4 billion liters of tariff-free American ethanol into the British market. It\u2019s a volume Vivergo\u2019s managing director Ben Hackett says is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukbioethanol-plant-vivergo-fuels-hit-donald-trump-trade-deal-job-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">equivalent<\/a>&nbsp;to the entire U.K. bioethanol market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless ministers intervene, 160 staff at Vivergo \u2014 one of only two major bioethanol producers in the U.K. \u2014 will lose their jobs from Aug. 18. Thousands more in farming and haulage will also feel the impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-trade-deal-us-uk-wheat-farming-ethanol-market\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-trade-deal-us-uk-wheat-farming-ethanol-market<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vivergo\u2019s plant is now at risk of closure due to the U.K.-U.S. trade deal, which allows 1.4 billion liters of tariff-free American ethanol into the British market. It\u2019s a volume Vivergo\u2019s managing director Ben Hackett says is equivalent to the entire U.K. bioethanol market.<br \/>\nUnless ministers intervene, 160 staff at Vivergo \u2014 one of only two major bioethanol producers in the U.K. \u2014 will lose their jobs from Aug. 18. Thousands more in farming and haulage will also feel the impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-trade-deal-us-uk-wheat-farming-ethanol-market\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,217,165,272,355,314,226,32,313,227,170,920,619],"class_list":["post-18961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-trade","tag-trade-agreement","tag-trade-deal","tag-trade-war","tag-trump","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18962,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions\/18962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}