Hennessy workers in France organized a strike in protest to a planned move to shift bottling operations of the brandy to China.

Hennessy, owned by the French luxury giant Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, is exploring the move after China recently imposed steep financial penalties on European brandy imports, according to the Confédération Générale du Travail and Force Ouvrière unions, which represent Hennessy employees.

On Monday, French newspaper La Tribune reported that around 500 employees at Hennessy Cognac have walked off the job in protest of a rumored relocation to China. According to the CGT labor union, Hennessy-owner LVMH is considering a plan to export distilled cognac to China,

Cognac workers threatened to resume strikes next week after LVMH’s Hennessy said it’s studying the option of bottling in China in a bid to avoid tariffs the country recently imposed on European brandy.

Hennessy is studying a plan to bottle cognac in China, the company owned by French luxury giant LVMH said on Tuesday, prompting hundreds of workers at its plant in southwestern France to go on strike.

Hundreds of employees of French cognac maker Hennessy, part of the LVMH group luxury empire, went on strike on Tuesday to protest measures the brand plans to employ to circumvent Chinese tariffs imposed in a spat with the EU.

Hennessy is studying a plan to bottle cognac in China, the company owned by French luxury giant LVMH said on Tuesday, prompting hundreds of workers at its

Staff at Hennessy, the cognac maker owned by French luxury giant LVMH, will continue their strike on Wednesday, a union representative said, to protest what he said was a plan to potentially bottle the brandy in China to avoid tariffs.

Hundreds of employees of French cognac maker Hennessy, part of the LVMH group luxury empire, have gone on strike to protest against measures the brand plans to employ to circumvent Chinese tariffs imposed in a spat with the EU.

Workers at distilleries Maisons Hennessey, Remy Martin, Courvoisier and Martell plan to go on strike next week over fears that the industry could relocate its bottling business to China in a bid to circumvent import tariffs.

Hennessy staff extended a strike on Wednesday over its plans to bottle cognac in China to circumvent import tariffs, after French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to lift the duties.