American wine shop owners and importers already dealing with tariffs on European imports pleaded with US trade officials for relief, arguing that adding a 100% tariff on French wine and Champagne threatened by President Trump would devastate their industry
Washington American wine shop owners and importers already dealing with tariffs on European imports pleaded with US trade officials for relief Tuesday, arguing that adding a 100% tariff on French wine and Champagne threatened by President Donald Trump would devastate their industry.
"My company will surely disappear if 100% tariffs are imposed on European wines," said Jenny Lefcourt, who started her New York City-based import business called Jenny and Francois Selections about 20 years agoThe wine industry is caught up in two separate trade spats.The Trump administration imposed a 25% tariff on most European wine in October, in retaliation for the subsidies Europe provided to aircraft maker Airbus.
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