{"id":227172,"date":"2026-01-20T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=227172"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:55:46","slug":"trump-threatens-200-tariff-on-french-wine-and-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/227172\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens 200% tariff on French wine and champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US President Donald Trump has threatened his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, with a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-19\/trump-s-peace-board-faces-rewrite-calls-after-messy-start?srnd=homepage-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after journalists informed Trump that Macron might reject joining the Gaza Peace Board.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, no one needs him since he will soon leave office&hellip; I will impose a 200% tariff on his wine and champagne, and he will join,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Macron&rsquo;s second term ends next year. The French president has stated he will not run in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump announced the creation of the Peace Board on Jan. 16. Its members include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, the president&rsquo;s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former British PM Tony Blair.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, with a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne, Bloomberg reports. The announcement came after journalists informed Trump that Macron might reject joining the Gaza Peace Board. &ldquo;Well, no one needs him since he will soon leave office&hellip; I will impose a 200% tariff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":227144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227173,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227172\/revisions\/227173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}