TRUMP’s 25% TARIFFS WILL BOOST EU PLASTICS EXPORTS, SAY EXPERTS
May 1st, 2019
United States (US) President Donald Trump’s announcement, May 10, to slap 25% additional tariffs on plastics exports to China could increase opportunities for European plastics exporters, experts have told Plastics News Europe.
Mike Boswell, managing director of UK-based plastics products supplier Plastribution, said: “Sales could increase to the US, depending on which items, as US products will become more expensive because of duty barriers.” The former British Plastics Federation president said time would tell what “could be substituted in terms of ...
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