Politico: By granting the U.S. a 1.4 billion-liter duty-free quota for bioethanol — roughly the size of the U.K.’s domestic bioethanol sector — the government had effectively traded away an entire industry in return for concessions elsewhere in the economy, Mills said.
“There is obviously a huge political weight behind the U.K. car industry, and that’s well understood in the corridors of power,” he added. “But the significance of a plant in Teesside or the Humber to the wider arable supply chain just isn’t understood…