No truce for confectioners in the commercial standoff between the United States and Europe.
On the eve of the change of year, Donald Trump decided to increase customs duties as of January 12 on a series of French and German products, in retaliation for similar measures on American products, as part of the dispute between Boeing and Airbus over aeronautics subsidies.
These taxes, particularly on aircraft spare parts and wines
,
are in addition to others already applied to French wines and cheeses.
Airbus denounced a
“counterproductive escalation”.
The French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, regrets an
“unfriendly”
decision
.
It might not be the end.
Less than three weeks before the handover of power at the White House, Donald Trump could also decide to execute, this Wednesday, a threat he brandishes against France in another dispute, that on the taxation of digital giants .
This date of January 6 corresponds
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