{"id":10963,"date":"2025-04-11T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10963\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:29:23","slug":"frances-push-for-strategic-autonomy-crumbles-under-trumps-booze-tariffs-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10963\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s push for strategic autonomy crumbles under Trump\u2019s booze tariffs \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump upped the ante last week <\/a>by threatening 200 percent tariffs on European alcohol. Such a move would disproportionally affect winemaking countries including France, which exported \u20ac15.4 billion worth of wine and spirits last year, according to the Federation of French Wine and Spirits Exporters (FEVS)<\/a>, most of which went to the United States. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

France is the EU\u2019s top exporter of wine and spirits, and the sector is particular influential in French politics and society.<\/p>\n

With one of its most valuable exports now in the White House\u2019s crosshairs, French leaders appear to be getting cold feet on the whole unity thing. Prime Minster Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou and his government<\/a> are instead publicly urging Brussels to spare Kentucky bourbon from any possible European response.<\/p>\n

After Trump imposed global steel and aluminum tariffs last week, the European Union threatened to retaliate by hitting a list of iconic American exports<\/a> in return \u2014 including Kentucky bourbon. Bayrou said over the weekend putting bourbon on the list was a mistake and France is now pushing to reconsider what is on its retaliatory list.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked them [the European Commission] 50 times not to hit bourbon,\u201d said a French minister who was granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive negotiations.<\/p>\n

Sign of weakness<\/p>\n

Jean-Luc Demarty, who was in charge of drafting the European Commission\u2019s tariff retaliation list in 2018, during Trump\u2019s first term, said it was “a mistake” to publicly try to dial back on Brussels\u2019 strategy, as it will be seen in Washington as \u201ca sign of weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump upped the ante last week by threatening 200 percent tariffs on European alcohol. Such…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[785,346,1395,473,32,1396,1305,2000,299,36,37,1824,2440,2199,7495,7496,1217,1218,7497,479,1201,1399,1219,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-10963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-dumping-duties","14":"tag-electric-vehicles","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-francois-bayrou","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-giorgia-meloni","21":"tag-italy","22":"tag-jean-luc-demarty","23":"tag-john-clarke","24":"tag-protectionism","25":"tag-steel","26":"tag-strategic-autonomy","27":"tag-tariffs","28":"tag-trade","29":"tag-trade-defense","30":"tag-trade-war","31":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114319810169110473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}