Tech versus Wine is the geopolitical arm-wrestle.
US President Donald J. Trump is in France for the G7 Summit and to meet French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, as you can read in WATCH LIVE: Trump Arrives at G7 Summit in Evian France to Hold Bilateral Meeting with Emmanuel Macron Immediately After UFC Freedom 250.
Among the many issues that will be discussed, there is one economic war that is on the outing: Trump is demanding that France drop its tax on American tech firms or face a 100% tariff on its wine.
Trump is threatening France with 100% tariffs on its wine unless it scraps its tax on American tech giants.
He says he took the warning straight to Macron over France’s 3% digital levy, the one that hits Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon.
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Trump is threatening France with 100% tariffs on its wine unless it scraps its tax on American tech giants.FOX Business reported:
“The U.S. will ‘have no choice’ but to apply the tariffs if French President Emmanuel Macron does not end its 3% levy on large digital services companies. ‘I asked him not to charge American companies, and if they do, I have no choice but to charge a 100% tariff on all champagnes and all wines coming out of France’, Trump told the New York Post in an interview. ‘All [Macron] has to do is get rid of the sales tax, and he wouldn’t have that kind of pressure’.
[…] ’The president has been unequivocally clear on digital services taxes and other forms of extortion against American tech firms’, a senior White House official told FOX Business on Monday, when reached for comment. ‘The administration is committed to using the many legal authorities at our disposal to defend American workers and businesses’.”
France’s digital services tax, in force since 2019. It applies a 3% levy to revenue earned in France by large digital companies and has long angered U.S. officials since it affects mostly the American technology firms.
But Macron has so far refused to drop the tax.
“It is not the United States who decide what constitutes the law for we Europeans.”
He was speaking from the G7 in Évian, after Trump threatened France with 100% tariffs on its wine unless it scraps its 3% tax on U.S. tech giants like Google, Apple and Meta.…
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 15, 2026
Bloomberg reported:
“It’s not the US that decides European or French law — that’s normal and it won’t be any different, at least as long as I am around,” Macron said on TF1 television from the G7, starting today and held at a picturesque town in the French Alps.
This is Macron’s second time hosting the G7 summit and it’s his last one as leader given his presidential term ends in May (2027]. He’s had a rocky relationship with Trump, and at this late stage in his political career he’s less bothered about pleasing Trump and is taking a more combative approach.”
But, while Macron seems unbothered by the negative effects that a US tariff on French wines can have on their struggling economy, the producers are trembling in their boots.
Reuters reported:
“French wine and spirits exporters said on Monday U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of 100% tariffs on French wine and champagne was bad news for an export-dependent industry caught in a dispute beyond its control.
[…] ‘This new threat is bad news for our industry, which relies heavily on exports’, French wine and spirits exporters group FEVS said in a reaction to Reuters.
The group urged ‘responsible behavior’, calling for balanced and constructive trade ties between France and the United States, ‘in the interest of both economies’.”
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