Paris, March 13, 2025 (AFP) - Trump tariffs: What's been done and what is to come?

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2025-03-13

US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to apply 200-percent tariffs on wine, champagne and other alcoholic drinks from France and other EU countries, in the latest twist of an escalating trade war. Here is what happened this week and what's looming in the coming weeks: Trump's threat to impose the huge tariffs on alcoholic drinks imported from EU countries would be a major blow to Europe's spirits makers. Europe exported almost $5.2 b......

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