Donald Trump on Monday, January 19 threatened 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne over France’s intentions to decline the US leader’s invitation to join his “board of peace.” The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of war-torn Gaza, but the charter does not appear to limit its role to the occupied Palestinian territory.
“I’ll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes. And he’ll join. But he doesn’t have to join,” Trump said, referring to French President Emmanuel Macron. A source close to Macron told AFP on Monday that France “does not intend to answer favorably” to the invitation.
The board’s charter “goes beyond the sole framework of Gaza,” the source close to the French president said.
Didn’t the supre court said that those tariffs were ilegal and the government is going to reimburse like a trillion?
I don’t think so. I think some lower courts did, but the Supreme Court changed the rules to ban “blanket injunctions,” so every wronged party has to bring their case to the courts and considered on a case-by-case basis. I think there’s a case about tariffs that the Supreme Court is supposed to rule on but haven’t yet. The admin, right now, can seemingly do anything it wants by just tying up courts with large numbers of illegal acts. They face no consequences for doing so, and the Supreme Court is mostly complicit (and illegitimate).
I remember reading smth along those lines
Also didn’t he try that a few years ago and French winemakers didn’t notice the difference?
Has the SCOTUS saying something is illegal stop him? He just does it anyway.