The President of the National Confederation of Producers of Controlled Designations of Origin fears “cessations of activity” after the threat of Donald Trump to tax French wines and spirits 200%. He calls to “stop climbing” otherwise “everyone will be a loser”.
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Donald Trump threatened France and the European Union (EU) to impose 200% customs duties on their champagnes, wines and other alcohols if the 50% tariffs announced by Brussels on American whiskey were not abandoned. “Losing the American market would have dramatic consequences on certain companies with, of course, the cessations of activities”On alarmed Friday, March 14 on Franceinfo Jérôme Bauer, Alsatian winegrower and president of the National Confederation of Producers of Wines with Appellations of Origin Controlled (CNAOC).
For the winegrower installed in the Haut-Rhin, the implementation of this threat would lead to a “A substantial drop in exports to the United States”. A threat all the more disastrous for the French wine sector than the latter “is doing very badly”, JEME BAUER ALERT. “There are structural problems of drop in consumption, but also for geopolitical problems”.
“We already have a knee on the ground.”
Jérôme Bauer, Alsatian winegrowerin franceinfo
The President of the CNOAC believes that “Europe made a mistake by wanting to tax the American Bourbons. It was to put French and European wine at the center of the target reprisals”. For Jérôme Bauer, “You have to stop climbing and open the discussions” With the United States, otherwise “Everyone will be losing in this story. “
