{"id":31789,"date":"2019-02-04T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31789"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:22:19","slug":"nissan-scraps-plans-to-build-new-model-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31789","title":{"rendered":"Nissan scraps plans to build new model in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>Japanese car manufacturer Nissan has confirmed it is scrapping plans to build a new model in the English city of Sunderland, citing uncertainty over Brexit and further highlighting employers&#8217; fears of a no-deal departure by the UK from the European Union.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The company had said in 2016 that it <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/27\/news\/companies\/nissan-uk-brexit\/\" target=\"_blank\">would produce the new X-Trail model at its Sunderland factory<\/a> after getting reassurances from the government over Brexit &#8212; an intervention hailed by Prime Minister Theresa May as a &#8220;vote of confidence&#8221; in British business after voters backed leaving the EU.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Now it&#8217;s reversed those plans and will instead continue to build the X-Trail in Japan, it confirmed on Sunday, dealing a major blow to the region&#8217;s economy and underlining repeated concerns from the British automotive industry over damage to the sector caused by Brexit.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)Japanese car manufacturer Nissan has confirmed it is scrapping plans to build a new model in the English city of Sunderland, citing uncertainty over Brexit and further highlighting employers&#8217; fears of a no-deal departure by the UK from the European Union.The company had said in 2016 that it would produce the new X-Trail model&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}