Brewers warned Trump’s beer tariffs in Europe can cost 100,000 jobs

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Brewers warned that the 25 percent of the beer imports can lead to 100,000 job losses and a brewery in Europe so that the European Commission calls for them to protect them.

This week, US President Donald Trump’s application of Levi as part of the “Freedom Day” tariffs Like sad beer and Heineken and Corona, the American importers of Europe and Mexico will cause financial hit.

Breek said that the new tariff was confused about all the beer or only in the boxes imported.

“We call on the Commission to use all the diplomatic channels and find a way to use this tariff that we are victims of negotiations or revenge,” he said.

Carlsberg, who from 28 countries, representing Asahi and trade groups, communicated with US officials on the EU trade addresses, but could not clarify the volume of tariffs entered into force on Friday.

The 25 percent rate is higher than 20 percent of which will apply to the United States.

According to the trade group, European brewers exported beer 870 million euros to the United States in 2024. The block estimates that 100,000 of the 100,000 doors are missing in the block.

Analysts make up 85 percent of the sales by Corona and model imports of the USDER imports of Mexico Beers. The exposure of Heineken is 3 percent of the group’s sales of import to the United States.

The steel immediately did not meet the desire to comment. Heineken refused to comment.

Aluminum imports of aluminum this week was subjected to tariffs before Trump’s sweep ads that expand the global trade war.

Brewers added the import of the US Commercial Administration, the “beer” and “beer” and “empty aluminum boxes to the list of products from the 25 percent tariff.

“We struggle to understand why Beer is lowered to be a product of the aluminum of Beer’s aluminum,” Leferman said. “It cannot be listed in conjunction with cables and wires.”

The words “Aluminum President Announcement” of the trade department left many unanswered questions.

An executive in an international brewery, the bodies were not clear whether the tariff or entire beer in the bodies is not clear. Another beer giant said the word “causes confusion” that this added that they said they mean beer and beer boxes.

Citi’s analysts, the change, the US beverage manufacturer “is likely to be more likely to be more boxed sources”, but the wider influence will be “marginal” to the aluminum market. Aluminum in law, mostly came to Mexico, Canada and China, and evaluated.

The head of the trade policy in the British Trade Rooms William Bain, the beer complicates the external competition in the American market, after the US industry missions.

Additional report by Peter Foster in London