Trump tariffs make Easter bittersweet for Swiss chocolatiers
Visitors taste different sorts of chocolate during the second International Salon des Chocolatiers et du Chocolat on Oct. 27, 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: AP/Martial Trezzini
GENEVA — With the normally brisk Easter season around the corner, the mood in Switzerland’s chocolate business is bittersweet, thanks to high cacao prices and — now — the newly added U.S. tariffs on imports.
Many Swiss, from the government to chocolatiers to watchmakers and other businesses, are sensing “shock” over the tougher American position on trade, but many are also taking a wait-and-see stance.
At the Festichoc chocolate festival in Geneva over the weekend, the Trump administration tariffs announced last week were on many minds, though they seemed to do little to sour the mood on Switzerland’s most famous sweets.
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