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Ms Tremblay sells over half of her wine abroad, under the name Domaine Cecile Tremblay."For the United States, it's around 10% of the production; it's a big production for me!" she says.
After threatening a 200% mark-up on alcohol from Europe, Donald Trump imposed a 20% tariff on practically all European Union products on 5 April.Four days later, he lowered this to 10%, with the threat that he'd hike it back up again to 20% in July, depending on how trade negotiations pan out. And now Trump is threatening a future tariff of 50% on all goods from the EU.I ask Ms Tremblay if she's worried. "Yes, sure," she says, "As everybody is."
But that is all she will say on the matter. French winemakers are walking on eggshells at the moment, fearful of saying anything that might aggravate the situation.Perhaps their representatives will be more forthcoming? I get in my car and drive over to one of her neighbours - François Labet. He is the president of the Burgundy Wine Board, which represents this region's 3,500 winemakers.
"The US is the largest export market for the whole region. Definitely," he tells me. "They are the biggest in volume and the biggest in value."
And, until Donald Trump's re-election, the US market was booming. While French wines and spirits global exportsAnother avenue is continued pressure on Russia's "
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by Joe Biden's outgoing administration in January 2025.Mai says that banning Russian LNG exports to Europe and closing the refining loophole in Western jurisdictions would be "important steps in finishing the decoupling of the West from Russian hydrocarbons".