AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) – China’s anti-dumping probe into Europe’s cognac business is a tit-for-tat response to European Union tariffs on Chinese language electrical automobiles, the finance chief at Hennessy cognac proprietor LVMH mentioned on Saturday.
China introduced plans on Friday for a listening to on European brandy imports, ramping up rigidity on the identical day the European Fee’s provisional tariffs on Chinese language-made electrical automobiles took impact.
“You can be a regional player with a very particular role in globalisation, as in our case, and regardless find yourself hostage to a number of conflicts that have nothing to do with your activities,” mentioned Jean-Jacques Guiony, chief monetary officer of the luxurious conglomerate.
“Every time there is a stray bullet in a trade conflict somewhere […] there’s a good chance that we end up having to negotiate, having to explain that we are not dumping, that the price of cognac is right,” Guiony mentioned.
He was talking on a panel about commerce at an economics convention within the southern French metropolis of Aix-en-Province.
LVMH manufacturers produce leather-based items, clothes, liquor and champagne principally in France and Italy and export all over the world.
Hennessy and different European cognac producers will attend a listening to on China’s anti-dumping probe of the business in Beijing on July 18, Reuters reported on Friday. French cognac accounts for many of China’s brandy imports.
China launched the investigation into brandy being “dumped”, or bought at artificially low costs, in January after a criticism by the China Alcoholic Drinks Affiliation on behalf of the home brandy business.
Guiony mentioned commerce wars have unfavorable knock-on results economically and politically, however added that Europe should stand collectively, saying China at present sees the area as weaker than america.
“We must not be the sick man of globalisation.”
