EU drops plans to hit American bourbon with retaliatory tariffs
by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Lisa O'Carroll in from US news | The Guardian on (#6WFR9)
Drink removed from draft list after lobbying from whiskey-making Ireland and wine-producing Italy and France
Amid the economic maelstrom of Donald Trump's trade war, drink makers might take a small drop of comfort: the EU has dropped plans to hit American bourbon with retaliatory tariffs.
Bourbon and other US whiskeys have escaped EU countermeasures after heavy lobbying from the EU's drinks-producing countries - such as whiskey-making Ireland and the wine behemoths Italy and France - who feared their alcohol industries would become casualties of a global trade war.
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