US TOBACCO EXPORTS IN FIRING LINE AS EUROPEAN UNION THREATENS RETALIATION OVER TRUMP METAL DUTIES
March 1st, 2018
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has warned that is prepared to impose temporary safeguard duties on imports into the EU of USA-made tobacco and tobacco products, if the US government imposes import duties on EU-made aluminium and steel imports.
Washington sparked a major diplomatic row when announcing the duties. It subsequently suspended their application to the EU until May 1 to allow talks on metal prices, but it was unclear by the time Tobacco Journal International went to press if these talks would be successful.
In case of failure, the EU executive, the European ...
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