How might US tariffs on imports of some EU wine and whisky affect those countries and Australia?- ---

摘要

In early October 2019 the WTO published rulings on a long-running dispute between the United States and the European Union over subsidies to aircraft manufacturing. The rulings allow the US to impose tariffs on annual imports of EU products worth up to US$7.5 billion. The US has since imposed tariffs on a wide range of EU goods (USTR 2019). They include an additional 25 per cent tariff on still bottled wines with no more than 14% alcohol from France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, and on Scottish and Irish whiskys, thereby hurting countries that have enjoyed the benefits of EU subsidies to Airbus. Italy and other wine exporters not benefiting from those subsidies are exempt from these new US tariff measures. Champagneand other sparkling wines, high-alcohol (e.g. fortified) wines, and bulk wines in containers greater than two litres, also are exempt even from the targeted countries.