President Donald Trump has warned France should scrap a 3% tech “gross sales tax” or face 100% tariffs on U.S. imports of its wines and champagne, the NY Publish reported Monday.
The president issued the menace forward of this week’s G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France.
“I requested [President Macron] to not cost American corporations, and in the event that they do, I’ve no alternative however to cost a 100% tariff on all champagnes and all wines popping out of France,” Trump instructed the Publish.
The digital providers tax, which was authorized by French lawmakers in 2019, entails a 3% levy on gross revenues generated in France by massive expertise corporations, together with U.S. giants resembling Amazon, Meta and Alphabet.
Exports to the U.S. make up about one-fifth of the French wine business’s complete international gross sales, at about $2 billion yearly.
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