US bourbon producers warn of financial damage if EU retaliates against Trump threat
by Amanda Holpuch in New York from on (#2VZKT)
EU threatens 'counter-measures' if Trump takes action to protect the US steel industry - and one of the targets could be bourbon whiskey from Kentucky
The US bourbon industry has warned that its business and consumers around the world will be harmed if the European Union acts on a retaliatory threat to target American whiskey exports.
At the G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday, the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, said that if the US took measures against Germany and China's steel industries, the EU would "react with counter-measures" within a few days.
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