
Trump Threatens 200 Percent Tariff on Champagne and Wine From Europe
“Reimposing these debilitating tariffs at a time when the spirits industry continues to face a slowdown” will “further curtail growth and negatively impact distillers and farmers in states across the country,” Chris Swonger, the chief executive of the Washington-based Distilled Spirits Council, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump wrote in his social media post that the tariffs “will be great for the wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.”
Champagne, technically, is only produced in a specific region in France.
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, did not have an immediate comment on Mr. Trump’s post.
But Olof Gill, a spokesman for the commission, said that bloc’s trade commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, had reached out to his American counterparts after the E.U.’s announcements Wednesday and that calls were “being prepared.”
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Originally posted on: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/trump-tariff-european-union-whiskey.html