Question 7168 — foreign trade

Summary

Mr. Fabrice Barusseau alerts the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of the need to obtain an agreement with the Chinese authorities before the end of the moratorium, on July 5, 2025, to relieve the French wine sector, in particular the Cognac sector which represents 14,000 direct jobs and 58,000 indirect jobs. The Chinese anti-dumping investigation opened on January 5, 2024 has damaged the sectors French wine producers and, more specifically, that of Cognac for which the Chinese market represented 25% of sales in 2023. According to the Bureau national interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC), shipments to China have fallen by 9.6% in volume and 23.8% in value compared to 2023 since the establishment of Chinese taxes on October 11, 2024. In 2025, on the only In February, exports to China fell by 72%. These The measures come in response to a European customs policy targeting, among other things, imports of Chinese electric vehicles for which France has shown itself to be particularly at the forefront. In 2025, the new taxation on small parcels from China decided by the Government has deteriorated commercial relations between the two countries. The consequences on sectors already targeted such as those of wine and spirits are already known: maintenance or even tightening by China of import taxes on these products. This commercial rivalry is already having consequences on the professionals involved in the Cognac sector: non-renewal of temporary workers and fixed-term contracts, layoffs and drop in orders from suppliers. An entire ecosystem is affected. For a bottle of Cognac, this are ancestral skills that are mobilized: winegrowers, of course, but also boilermakers, coopers, cellar masters and workers, etc. The commercial crisis is therefore coupled with a risk of loss of intangible heritage. Also, he asks him what he intends to implement in the negotiations with China to obtain an end to Chinese taxation on wines and spirits.

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