For France, collection without too much breakage – Liberation
The next expedition from Gérardmer (Vosges) to the American warehouses of Arlington, in the state of Virginia, is scheduled for mid-April. The container, filled with bedrooms, toilet towels and woven, ennobled tea towels, and made by the 250 employees of Garnier Thiebaut in France, will pass through the port of Le Havre. When the cargo will be landed in that of Norfolk in three to four weeks, if Donald Trump has not been changed by then, she will see the amount of customs duties enhanced. The rate of 20 % reserved for all goods imported from the European Union (EU), One of the « Liberation Day » announcementscomes into force from this Wednesday, April 9. As the rest of the tailor-made rates (exceeding the 10 % floor applied to the whole world) that the US administration inflicts on 56 countries, in addition to those of the EU in the name of an alleged reciprocity.
Paul de Montclos, the boss of Garnier Thiebaut, manufacturer of household linen for 192 years at family shareholders, will not seek to diminish the customs bill by changing the maritime road to leave the continent from a less taxed country (the United Kingdom is only 10 %), nor to compress the margin of its SME with 80 million euros in turnover. « No
