{"id":33191,"date":"2025-02-13T08:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/caught-in-the-middle-uk-firms-brace-for-fallout-from-trumps-global-trade-war\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:08:27","slug":"caught-in-the-middle-uk-firms-brace-for-fallout-from-trumps-global-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/caught-in-the-middle-uk-firms-brace-for-fallout-from-trumps-global-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught in the middle: UK firms brace for fallout from Trump\u2019s global trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While UK may not be in direct line of fire, knock-on effects on global trade has British businesses worried<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re vulnerable at the moment,\u201d says Fiona Conor, the managing director of Trust Electric Heating, a Leeds-based radiator manufacturer, who has been considering expanding into the US market.<\/p>\n<p>After a predictably unpredictable start to Donald Trump\u2019s second term as US president, Conor is worried her options could be limited, as businesses across the UK brace for a global trade war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/13\/caught-in-the-middle-uk-firms-brace-for-fallout-from-trumps-global-trade-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While UK may not be in direct line of fire, knock-on effects on global trade has British businesses worried \u201cWe\u2019re vulnerable at the moment,\u201d says Fiona Conor, the managing director of Trust Electric Heating, a Leeds-based radiator manufacturer, who has been considering expanding into the US market. After a predictably unpredictable start to Donald Trump\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Caught in the middle: UK firms brace for fallout from Trump\u2019s global trade war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/caught-in-the-middle-uk-firms-brace-for-fallout-from-trumps-global-trade-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Caught in the middle: UK firms brace for fallout from Trump\u2019s global trade war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}