Champagne growers say President Donald Trump's tariffs on European goods will hurt sales to the United States, their biggest export market, but hope that the sector may yet escape the new duties.

Trump's steeper global tariffs, including a maximum 15 percent on EU goods, came into effect on Thursday, upending global trade.

"It's going to hurt," said Christine Sevillano, a champagne grower and head of the independent champagne makers association.

The US market accounts for nearly 10 percent of her turnover, Sevillano told AFP at her family-owned organic vineyard.

Like many growers here, she hopes that ongoing talks between the European Commission -- which negotiates trade deals on behalf of EU members -- and the US government may yet result in a better deal for her sector.

"I want to b

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