FILE PHOTO: AltEn LLC ethanol plant is seen in Mead, Nebraska, U.S., March 21, 2019. REUTERS/Humeyra Pamuk/File Photo
NEW YORK - The U.S.-China trade war is hurting the U.S. ethanol industry “badly,” Mike Dwyer, chief economist of the U.S. Grains Council, said on Wednesday at an event at New York Sugar week: “Without the tariff protection we would probably supply 90-plus percent of all import needs they had,” Dwyer said while on a panel with Renewable Fuels Association chief economist Scott Richman.
The trade conflict between the two countries escalated just about a year after China said it would target the roll-out of gasoline known as “E10,” containing 10 percent ethanol, by 2020. This was expected to bolster the country’s demand for U.S. ethanol.“If this trade war ended tomorrow you would see margins expand by 10 cents a gallon,” Dwyer said.
While domestic measures like the promised expansion of higher ethanol gasoline blends such as E15 help, trade issues need to be resolved for the industry to thrive.Reporting by Ayenat Mersie; Editing by Phil Berlowitz
What? The ethanol industry isn't patriotic? Aren't they supposed to sacrifice like the soya bean farmers?
Good. Agribusiness has been raping the taxpayer for years with this government program. No sympathy for them.
Don’t panic. Trump knows what he’s doing. It’s gonna take a few weeks to clean up a 25 year mess caused by the cheating Chinese
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Bunk. We shouldn't even have an ethanol industry. Corn is for food, not for cars.
It's matter of time that USA losing it supremacy.
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