Wine Importers Concerned About Proposed Tariffs on French Goods
Wine companies opposing the proposed tariffs on French goods so far dominate the requests to testify at the Jan. 7 hearing on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s December finding that France’s digital services tax discriminates against U.S. companies…
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(see 1912030039). “As an independent family owned company in the wine distribution and import business I request a chance to be heard and to explain my and all of my colleagues fears about the tariffs and the impact they will have on American businesses,” David Bowler said, for example. The agency is considering up to 100 percent retaliatory tariffs on 63 subheadings of French imports worth about $2.4 billion in 2018 customs value, mainly cheese, beauty products, handbags and kitchenware. Written comments on USTR's proposed tariffs are due Jan. 6. Post-hearing rebuttals are due Jan. 14.