Donald Trump is starting off his morning by doing something he’s done quite often, which is threaten tariffs on major US trading partners.
The latest salvo is aimed at the European Union and their alcoholic beverage industry, particularly France and its world-renowned vineyards. Trump says he’ll put tariffs on what the bloc exports to the United States, after the EU yesterday imposed their own levies on American whiskey in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel.
The escalatory tit-for-tat is why these things are referred to as trade wars. Here’s what Trump wrote, on Truth Social:
The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.
This feels like he is playing an RPG with the lowest character and intelligence points, where his only remaining actions are “impose levies”, “play golf” and “incoherent rambling”
Good, keep your Jack Daniels and I keep my Chianti, Grappa, Merlot and Riesling. Win-win.
Jack Daniels is shit, drink a glass of Scotish or Irish whisky/whiskey instead.
Tbh, I can’t stand Bourbon, regardless of country of origin. Don’t know of a single good scotch from the States though.
There is no Scotch from the States.
Scotch is from Scotland by definition.You’re absolutely right! I should’ve said malt or grain whiskey.
He’s finally learned that tariffs aren’t a discount on the price and as such the value can go above 100%. The sky is the limit at this point.
And nothing of value would be lost if Europe were to blanket ban all US drinks. Especially US wines and spirits. Vile, overly expensive stuff.
400% tax on coca cola!
Californian red wine is pretty good.
But if it were off the shelves where I live, I likely wouldn’t even notice.
And if I did, I’d be like “meh” and buy one from Chile, Australia, or Spain instead.
We should put a 1000% tax on BigMacs. Let’s see how fast the numbers can go up.
If we don’t sell champagne to the US does it mean the price will get lower for us ? If yes, I’m all in :)
Bar any other factors, yes, that should be the case.
Given there are multitudes of variables in play here: Unlikely.
I feel miffed at this.
My country makes and exports better wines and spirits than France and nobody remembers us. I want to see the Orange Avenger being miffed at Portugal! I want tariffs on Porto and Madeira wines imports! Try and get those anywhere else!
This guy is so cringe
then maybe Europe should retailiate by tariffs ov 250% on ANYTHING american - including ALL software services. And, if they don’t pay immediately - what about rate-limiting their bandwidth until they pay proper taxes in Europe?
If they still block - SOME of their hardware is in European datacenters. We - Europe - plan on building our own big IT infrastructure. So, to quote Age of Empires:
“Nice cloud server - I’ll take it.” - and seize ALL the american IT hardware we’ve got here.
Let them sue…
Banning all American products and services would be a net positive on European society in the long term, IMO.
Lol, good luck having cabinet meetings without scotch, idiot.
I don’t drink alcohol so I’m good.
That’s the spirits
No, it’s exactly the opposite. No.alcohol means no spirits.
Wonder where the downvotes come from, I enjoyed it. Is this r/yourjokebutworse territory?
For everyone playing at home - you literally cannot have an American Champagne.
