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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colleen Barry

Trump tariff threats hang over Italian fashion industry as a luxury slowdown hits

Italy Fashion Tariffs - (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The head of Italy's fashion chamber said he has appealed to its government to protect the country's second-largest industry from possible tariffs from the Trump administration.

“We hope they don’t arrive,’’ Italian National Fashion Chamber President Carlo Capasa said Wednesday during the presentation of the calendar for the next Milan Fashion Week later this month. “If Trump penalizes the second industry in Italy, it is a pretty hostile declaration.”

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