French minister calls Trump’s wine tariff threat ‘moronic’
The US president threatens to tax French wine following France’s digital ‘GAFA’ tax, but top-end French wineries are shrugging the threat off
30 July 2019 - 17:58
Bordeaux — On Tuesday, French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume denounced as “completely moronic” US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a tax on French wine.
“It’s absurd, in terms of having a political and economic debate, to say that if you tax the ‘GAFAs’, I’ll tax wine. It’s completely moronic,” Guillaume told BFM TV. “American wine is not better than French wine.” ..
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