Hours before heading off to meet world leaders at the Group of Seven Summit, President Donald Trump warned France about imposing a 100% tariff on its wines.
Trump said the U.S. will have “no choice” but to levy the tariffs if French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hosting the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, does not back off on the tax on American technology.
“I asked him not to charge American companies, and if they do, I have no choice but to charge a 100% tariff on all champagnes and all wines coming out of France,” Trump told the New York Post.
“All [Macron] has to do is get rid of the sales tax, and he wouldn’t have that kind of pressure,” he added.
Macron pushed back, telling French television channel TF1 that “tariffs don’t do anyone any good, especially tariffs between G7 countries.”
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“It is not the United States who decide what constitutes the law for we Europeans.”
He was speaking from the G7 in Évian, after Trump threatened France with 100% tariffs on its wine unless it scraps its 3% tax on U.S. tech giants like Google, Apple and Meta.…
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He called for “firm” discussions with Trump at the summit and said France will not bend to U.S. pressure
“That’s not how it works. We have reached an agreement on tariffs, and now what is needed is stability,” Macron said.
“France’s digital services tax, often called the GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft) tax, has been in force since 2019. It applies a 3% levy to revenue earned in France by large digital companies with more than about $29 million in French revenue and about $870 million in global revenue,” Fox Business reported.
“The measure has long angered U.S. officials because it disproportionately affects American technology firms,” the report continued.
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“French wine and spirits exports to the U.S. currently face a 15% tariff, a rate French officials have been lobbying to reduce to zero since Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed to a U.S.-EU trade deal in Scotland last summer,” according to Fox Business.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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