date:Feb 14, 2019
Sales of French wine and spirits to China fell last year, industry figures showed on Wednesday (Feb 13), in a further sign that a Chinese economic slowdown is hitting consumption.
The Federation for Wine and Spirit Exporters (FEVS) said direct sales to mainland China, France's third-biggest export market, slumped 14.4 per cent in 2018 to 1 billion (US$1.13 billion).
But it said the drastic decline had been partly compensated by an increase in exports to Singapore and Hong Kong, from where some