Transatlantic duties: Federvini asks for the exclusion of wines and spirits – Foodmakers.it

Federvini launches an alarm acceso the countermeasures that the European Union has announced acceso transatlantic duties.

Federvini, the main Italian association of producers of wines and spirits, joins the European associations representative, respectively, the producers of wine (EEC) and spirits (spiritseurope), quanto a the appeal to the European institutions so that wines and spirits are excluded from retaliable measures that have risposta negativa relevance with the commercial disputes underway. The application of duties that would reach up to 50% acceso products such as US whiskey would risk further demanding commercial tensions between Europe and the United States, endangering thousands of jobs and damaging entire productive and distribution chains acceso both banks of the Atlantic.

Federvini hopes that the European and American institutions will find an agreement that excludes wines and spirits from the field of tariff countermeasures by preserving a commercial relationship that has shown, over time, to generate mutual benefits and a strong economic exchange.

“The Italian liqueurs and friendly sector has already undergone, between 2019 and 2021, the disruptive effects of American duties – declares Micaela Pallini, president of Federvini – today, mindful of what happened, it is even more important to combine the forces to intensify the dialogue with the United States and protect the competitiveness of their respective productions, avoiding that wines and spirits are used as a pepper quanto a commercial disputes see with our supply chains. The dialogue and collaboration between Europe and the USA are a key from which you cannot ignore if you want to aspetto at a future of shared growth. “