Swiss Watch Exports Slump in September on US Tariffs

Rolex GMT-Master II watches watches in the window of a store in New York. Swiss watch exports fell in September, hurt by the Trump administration’s 39% tariff on imports from Switzerland to the US, the industry’s largest market. Watch exports fell 3.1% from a year earlier to 2 billion Swiss francs ($2.5 billion), the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said in a statement Tuesday. Increases in most markets last month were eclipsed by a 56% plunge in exports to the US. Most Read from Bloomberg That m ...