INCAVI admits that 200% tariffs would close the American market to Catalan wine, but calls for "prudence"

ACN/Barcelona - The general director of the Catalan Institute of Vine and Wine (INCAVI), Joan Gené, has admitted that if the United States decides to impose 200% tariffs on Catalan wine, it will "close" the American market to them. In statements to ACN, Gené, however, called for "prudence" and to wait to see how the threat launched this Thursday by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is implemented. "We are used to them first threatening, then putting it into practice and after a few days withdrawing it," he said, "and it is difficult to assess how the issue will turn out." In any case, Gené believes that, if the threat ends up being applied, Catalan wineries will be given “windows of opportunity” to market in Canada, Mexico or South America, “where American wine will lose competitiveness”.

Although he admitted that if 200% tariffs were applied to Catalan wine, it would remove it from the American market, Gené added that this would affect “all European wine”. In any case, he called on “not to get nervous” and “react to specific things”.