Trump threatens 200% tariff on E.U. booze over tax on U.S. whiskey
Source: NBC
President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to impose 200% tariffs on alcohol from the European Union in response to the region's retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., further escalating tensions between two longtime trading partners.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the president claimed that the E.U. was "formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States" while calling it "one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World." Trump claimed the protectionist move "would be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-threatens-200-tariff-eu-booze-tax-us-whiskey-rcna196192
Link to tweet

Marthe48
(21,319 posts)asshole
I wish somebody would fill his mouth with dental concrete.
whopis01
(3,855 posts)johnnyfins
(2,490 posts)Lovie777
(19,414 posts)shithole musk republicans want the USA and her people to suffer.
yardwork
(67,282 posts)They won't like paying a lot more for French wines and cordials.
mdbl
(6,978 posts)and other assorted Repuglican alcoholics.
forgotmylogin
(7,908 posts)Who's gonna blink first?
He's a toddler at an auction. Someone bids 10, someone else bids 20, Donnie rage-bids 350 million because he has no patience. He's not at all interested negotiating in good faith what's reasonable for everyone, he wants instant gratification rather than the slow process of diplomacy.
johnnyfins
(2,490 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,543 posts)Under Trump, there are no vices anymore! So no one even mentions it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,230 posts)Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)





we can do it
(12,928 posts)BattleRow
(1,735 posts)Scrivener7
(56,517 posts)And PS: EU, don't back down. My country men and women need to be hit over the head with their own idiocy.
IronLionZion
(49,491 posts)Lots of them like alcohol
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)IronLionZion
(49,491 posts)We might have more industrial buyers for recycled aluminum. Some small consolation for those of us who always recycle
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)All beer and soda has pretty much moved to cans for production and distribution. We can't do it domestically or with recycling.
It's gonna be a shitshow.
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)You didn't like $18 Negronis? Wait for the $36 Negroni!
GardenGnome
(107 posts)in Canadian liquor stores that need filling. More room for European products?
Gimpyknee
(388 posts)The EU was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States.
birdographer
(2,937 posts)Poor donny, nobody likes him. Nobody ever has, nobody ever will. And he knows it.
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)and other "separatist" campaigns like Catalonia.
whopis01
(3,855 posts)that is now owned by Eric Trump.
riversedge
(76,691 posts)Dave Bowman
(5,507 posts)NotHardly
(2,133 posts)MissouriDem47
(229 posts)Trump wanted a trade war and now he's got one. The sad thing is millions of us, both here and abroad will pay the price.
JohnnyRingo
(20,069 posts)...he's now loading the Howitzer of tariffs.
The economic stability of the entire world is in peril because of the whims of one man. Two if you count Putin.
NNadir
(36,197 posts)We could have had Kamala. Instead it's this. I just can't understand it.
mnhtnbb
(32,656 posts)how many truly fu*ked up people there are in this country who would vote for the orange a$$hole, despite knowing who he had shown himself to be from his first time in office. It should have been a landslide for Kamala.
NNadir
(36,197 posts)...with hope for our country and its future.
Now I see the United States as having committed suicide; gone, in weeks, from its long history of leadership collapsing into a pathetic laughing stock, reviled and hated.
I have lost my last vestige of respect for our people. We are not worthy of our history any longer.
OLDMDDEM
(2,625 posts)CountAllVotes
(21,895 posts)and I hate eggs.
I'm good for now!
Owens
(547 posts)He thinks he has the upper hand at the expense of Americans. He must be impeached
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,655 posts)This is going to get nasty
Link to tweet
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/13/business/alcohol-tariffs-eu-trump-trade-war
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said his administration would impose a 200% tariff on alcoholic beverages from the EU unless it rescinds the 50% tariff the European government imposed Wednesday on US spirits.
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, Trump said. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.
Americas response to Europes response to Americas tariffs in the span of 36 hours shows how trade wars can quickly spiral out of control. After Trumps 25% tariffs on aluminum and steel went into effect at midnight Wednesday morning, the EU immediately retaliated against what it called an unjustified trade action from the Trump administration.
The EUs countermeasures included tariffs on 26 billion ($28 billion) worth of American goods, including tariffs on boats, bourbon and motorbikes. The measures, which are set to go into effect in April, are swift and proportionate, the EU said in a statement.
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,655 posts)jmowreader
(52,548 posts)the European Union was formed to discourage European countries from going to war against each other, which was very common back in the day.
dchill
(42,660 posts)...that your president is indeed an ignorant, traitorous flaming asshole.