France should just ignore this and apply the taxes anyway. The orange bully doesn’t know how to legally implement tariffs and he is way too busy trying to stay out of the Epstein controversy anyway.
Just do-it, Not only the tax on tech will help french economy and push people to use “local” solution, but the US trade tariff on french wine means that less Champagne will go to the US, which means less demand for the same offer, so cheaper price for Europeans. Price for Champagne and other decent wine raised way faster than inflation, and a 40 EUR bottle of bad champagne isn’t worth that much
Plus Trumps tariffs will be ruled illegal anyway, and his cronies will keep the profits because nazis gonna nazi.
Average MAGAt: “I did nazi that coming!”
Wait until Trump realises that France is in the EU and that you can’t tarriff France alone.
He will try
And fail ,again and again
Someone should tell Trump tariffs on French wine will just boost sales of California wine. Maybe he hates California enough to back off.
That would also result in wine being more environmentally friendly. Shipping liquid in heavy glass bottles is a carbon footprint nightmare, so people should be drinking wine as locally produced as possible.
Nah, humanity is really good at shipping. Locally sourced wine is only environmentally friendlier than shipping if you happen to live in a vintner.
Unsurprisingly, that doesn’t seem to be true, but also the studies seem to arrive at pretty different numbers about how much worse it is.
Some authors, such as Neto et al. (2013), show that the distribution of wine has a relatively small impact of 1.9% (0.05 kg CO2e/bottle of 750 ml) relative to the viticulture and wine bottling stages in the supply chain. Others, such as Bonamente et al. (2016), estimate the distribution of bottled wine to represent approximately 41.1% of the total life cycle emissions of wine at consumption.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539526000866#t0005
Exactly. Even in the worst case, it’s better to ship a bottle of wine from California to Canada, than try to use greenhouses to make a Canadian winery a reality.
Anyone remember like a month ago when the Supreme Court ruled he can’t do this?
Not sure how the volume of wine sales is, but it feels like BigTech has a way higher volume? On the other hand, it’s a 100% tariff vs a 3% tax…
For 2025:
France and Italy maintained their positions as the largest suppliers to the United States by value. France exported €2,130.4 million of wine (-7.9%), while Italy reached €1,807.7 million (-13.21%)
That being said, I suppose that he could probably find other French products to impose tariffs on.
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4279.html
In 2025, the US imported $68 billion from France.
If France is facing tariffs, the EU is going to respond. That is playing trade war on “stupid” mode.
Again
The French can sell their wine to the rest of the world. Ignore the orange man, he has no legitimacy to interfere in the French internal affairs.
There’s Paris and France towns in Poland. It’s a great news to those cities because now they can act as a bottler companies for all those French wines and keep the French labels and “produced and bottled in France” while bypassing the “Tarif on France” which is nonsense in itself.
Dictator says obey me or else! Taco time
Tomorrow’s TACO Tuesday. If I were French, I wouldn’t be worried…
Oh darn, no more collecting French wine in the cellar!?
How fucking tone deaf is this. You don’t get to collect a sales tax on Internet services or else we will tax this luxury item.
Who the fuck is Trumplethinskin working for here? It isn’t your average American getting some barefoot wine at the grocery store for fucks sake.
Box wine is the only wine
I buy my wine in cans.
So, let me understand. His MAGAAs were trying to pair a nice Bordeaux or Châteauneuf-du-Pape with their Wagyu beef dinner, and noticed it was a little pricey? Is that what he’s fixing?
Meanwhile, the EPSTEIN files have Trump’s name throughout them like a fungus in a flooded basement. Trump is a shit smear.
It’s so funny. Demanding a common tax for making profits with tech apparently is “unfair”. Must be his tech bro’s who are not happy. Probably he received a message: “We don’t wanna pay taxes, do something!”.
Secret environmentalist move by Trump. Wine is one of those products where I’ll never understand why it gets shipped around the world.
You can produce good wine in NA. Same here: I am sitting between France’s and Germany’s best wine regions, but I can buy wine from South Africa, Australia and California?! Why?
Because it’s a different product with a different taste.
Nah, one tastes like the other. That’s quality! /s
(It’s 6 months and 10 days till Christmas :-p)
It’s simple: many people don’t like it when the Party and “supreme leader” tell them what to wear, which food/drinks to consume and what books to [not] read. But it’s out of comprehension of agent Krasnov - or his comrade, mister Pootin.
Not a secret environmentalist move, but an obvious sign of incapability and malice.
Trump tells France to scrap sales tax or else he’ll punish his own people with another tax instead.
Every day is a tortured exercise to remain sane.
