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Article: French wine boycott 'successful'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 4, 1996
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THE French wine boycott enacted last summer, which left bottles
of claret and champagne on supermarket shelves as a mark of protest
against the country's nuclear tests in the Pacific, appears to have
paid off. Imports of French wine into Britain have been hard hit
in the past year, according to official figures, and champagne
imports have dropped by as much as a third.
Boycotts of French goods began across the world last June, when
President Jacques Chirac announced that France would resume nuclear
testing at Mururoa atoll in the Pacific. In Britain, France's most
valued export market for wine, protest groups asked shoppers to opt
for wines other than those from France.
Figures released by ...