European wine and spirits will face a 15% U.S. import tariff until a different deal is agreed in talks expected to continue in the autumn, the European Commission and EU diplomats said on Thursday, dashing producers' hopes of an immediate reprieve.

The European Union expects that wine and spirits exported to the U.S. will face a 15% tariff from Friday, a spokesman said as the clock runs down for U.S. levies on the bloc to kick in.The U.S. and EU are ironing out the finer details of a trade agreement reached by commission president Ursula von der Leyen and President Trump on Sunday.

EUROPEAN wine and spirits face a 15 per cent US import tariff as Donald Trump’s new ­levies kick in on Friday. The European Union was tonight pushing to get more exemptions as the stiff tariffs