Trump Threatens 200 Percent Tariff on European Alcohol

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he is planning to impose a 200 percent tariff on European countries’ alcoholic products sold to the U.S., responding to a much smaller tariff imposed by the European Union (EU) that was itself was in response to tariffs by Trump earlier this month. The EU announced on Wednesday that it would place a tariff on U.S.-made whiskey…

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