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The EU executive power described a new agreement on asymmetric duties with the government of Donald Trump, declared on Sunday as a step to predictability.
However, less than the day before the United States should introduce a new 15% tailor to the EU industrial products, Critical details of several regionsFor example, wine and alcoholic beverages remain unresolved.
Interested parties in the industry are still hoping for exceptions, but the official list was not published. The press secretary of the Committee recognized on Thursday that wine and alcoholic beverages would probably be subjected to duties.
“We do not expect wine and alcoholic drinks will be included in the first group of exceptions that will be announced tomorrow in the USA,” the representative said.
“We are still negotiating,” he added, noting that two sides are working To complete a joint statement Based on the agreement reached between the President of the commission Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald Trump.
Ensuring exclusion from the wine industry and alcoholic beverages remains the main priority for the EU negotiation team in Brussels. This industry is of strategic importance, especially for France, which, along with Italy, Spain and Ireland, actively insists on the exclusion of these products.
“We continue our negotiations with the Americans, therefore, if possible, with the exception of alcoholic beverages, possibly wine and other areas. This is a permanent job, ”said France Minister Eric Lobar in a radio interview on Wednesday.
The USA and China are the best export markets for European wines and alcoholic beverages. Only in France does the industry support almost 550,000 jobs throughout its network. Chinese responsibilities already affect the industry, and the new US responsibilities will be further blows.
Both the EU trade officials and the US trading positions, along with the associations of large sectors, such as distilled advice and Comité Europeen des Entreprises, were in favor of the rule from zero to zero wine and alcoholic beverages.
Nevertheless, the EU negotiating position was weakened, and Brussels no longer has an effective effect on these products.
Previous ability to threaten the cult exports of the United States, such as Burbon or California wine, often kept the EU wine and alcoholic beverages outside the US goals.
This opportunity disappeared with the last agreement reached in Scotland, as a result of which the EU was less desire to threaten a wider agreement for one sector.
Expanding the uncertainty, the representative of the commission refused to confirm whether the duties would be fulfilled on Friday 1/8, only saying that they have a “clear perception”, that the United States intends to proceed with the executive resolution, possibly overnight.