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Will Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire really hold?

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Food   来源:Technology Policy  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:And yet, with the country set to elect a new president on 3 June, those very women say they feel invisible again.

And yet, with the country set to elect a new president on 3 June, those very women say they feel invisible again.

"For the United States, it's around 10% of the production; it's a big production for me!" she says.After threatening a 200% mark-up on alcohol from Europe, Donald Trump imposed a 20% tariff on practically all European Union products on 5 April.

Will Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire really hold?

Four days later, he lowered this to 10%, with the threat that he'd hike it back up again to 20% in July, depending on how trade negotiations pan out. And now Trump is threatening a future tariff of 50% on all goods from the EU.I ask Ms Tremblay if she's worried. "Yes, sure," she says, "As everybody is."But that is all she will say on the matter. French winemakers are walking on eggshells at the moment, fearful of saying anything that might aggravate the situation.

Will Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire really hold?

Perhaps their representatives will be more forthcoming? I get in my car and drive over to one of her neighbours - François Labet. He is the president of the Burgundy Wine Board, which represents this region's 3,500 winemakers."The US is the largest export market for the whole region. Definitely," he tells me. "They are the biggest in volume and the biggest in value."

Will Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire really hold?

And, until Donald Trump's re-election, the US market was booming. While French wines and spirits global exports

, sales of Burgundy wines to the US rose sharply.Mr Raghunandan says that Russia's cost of producing crude is also lower than in Opec countries like Saudi Arabia, so they would be hurt by lower oil prices before Russia.

"There is no way that Saudi Arabia is going to agree to that. This has been tried before. This has led to conflict between Saudi Arabia and the US," he says.Ms Rosner says there are both moral and practical issues with the West buying Russian hydrocarbons while supporting Ukraine.

"We now have a situation in which we are funding the aggressor in a war that we're condemning and also funding the resistance to the war," she says. "This dependence on fossil fuels means that we are really at the whims of energy markets, global energy producers and hostile dictators."Get our flagship newsletter with all the headlines you need to start the day.

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