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\n President Trump\u2019s 200% tit-for-tat tariff threat on EU alcohol is causing panic in France’s already weakened champagne industry.
\n ADVERTISEMENTThe French champagne industry is bracing itself for a major blow after US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to slap tariffs of up to 200% on European alcohol if the EU’s new 50% tariffs on bourbon are not lifted.\u00a0The US is France\u2019s top client when it comes to champagne exports with\u00a025 million bottles shipped across the Atlantic last year.\u00a0In 2024, France exported \u20ac3.8 billion worth of wines and spirits to the United States, representing a quarter of its total exports.Trump\u2019s threat in a tit-for-tat escalation of the transatlantic trade war is causing panic among those who work in the already weakened champagne sector.\u00a0Champagne sales have been sinking for more than two years as inflation-weary consumers both in France and abroad cut back due to the rising prices.\u00a0The total number of champagne exports decreased by nearly 10% last year. At home, the demand for the beverage also dipped 8%.\u00a0Champagne alternatives gaining popularityThe champagne region is also struggling with climate change and extreme weather events such as high heat and early frosting.\u00a0This has resulted in smaller harvests for wine growers, further raising the price of champagne.\u00a0It\u2019s a trend Agn\u00e8s Baracco, the owner of a wine shop in north-eastern Paris, has noticed in the last few years.\u00a0\u201cI sell champagne, but over the\u00a0last two years, prices have gone up a lot, and customers are turning their backs,\u201d she told Euronews.\u00a0\u201cWhen I first opened the shop fifteen years ago, my cheapest champagne was around \u20ac20. Today, I sell it for \u20ac27 because I trim my profit margin when I could sell it for more,\u201d she explained.\u00a0Instead, she claims her clients are turning to other bubbly alternatives like a sparkling Vouvray wine that she sells for approximately\u00a0\u20ac10.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s my best seller. And coincidentally, it’s not expensive,” she exclaimed.\u00a0Other more affordable alternatives such as Italian prosecco, Spanish cava, and French sparkling wines are threatening the champagne sector both on the local and international market.\u00a0Time for changeAccording to Jean-Marie Cardenat, an economist and expert in the wine industry, it\u2019s a much-needed wake-up call for the champagne sector.\u00a0ADVERTISEMENT\u201cPerhaps we need to accept the fact that champagne, which has enjoyed a form of monopoly for several decades, is no longer in that situation whether it\u2019s on the French market with the rise of cr\u00e9mant or on the international market, with cava and prosecco now competing with champagne,\u201d he told Euronews.\u00a0\u201cI think the way forward for the sector undoubtedly lies in a slightly renewed marketing approach,\u201d he said.\u00a0For the moment, both the EU and France seem unwilling to back down\u00a0in the transatlantic trade spat.\u00a0The French Federation of Wine and Spirits exporters said they’re \u201cfed up with being systematically sacrificed\u201d in the wake of the trade war.\u00a0ADVERTISEMENTBut French Trade Minister Laurent Saint-Martin said on Thursday that his country would \u201cfight back.\u201d\u201cWe will not give in to threats and will always protect our industries,\u201d he wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic President Trump\u2019s 200% tit-for-tat tariff threat on EU alcohol is causing panic in France’s already weakened champagne industry. ADVERTISEMENTThe French champagne industry is bracing itself for a major blow after US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to slap tariffs of up to 200%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241489,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241487\/revisions\/241489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}