{"id":23458,"date":"2019-07-27T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=23458"},"modified":"2019-07-27T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:45:06","slug":"will-tax-french-wine-in-retaliation-of-their-digital-tax-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=23458","title":{"rendered":"Will tax French wine in retaliation of their digital tax: Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 10.85pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would impose tax on French wine in retaliation of France&#8217;s digital tax that would impact American companies.<\/span>&#8220;I told him (French President Emmanuel Macron) don&#8217;t do it, because if you do it, I&#8217;m going to tax your wine &#8212; tariff or tax &#8212; call it whatever you want. So, yeah, we are working on that right now,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House.Earlier, Trump spoke to Macron over phone, during which the two leaders discussed a host of issues, including addressing the continued threat posed by Iran to commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, France&#8217;s decision to adopt a digital services tax and the upcoming G7 Summit, according to White House spokesperson Judd Deere.<span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">Responding to a question, Trump said he &#8220;might&#8221; impose tax on French wine.<\/span>&#8220;So, France put a tax on our companies. You know that. Wrong thing to do. They should not have done it. So I may do that,&#8221; he said.<\/span>&#8220;I have always liked American wine better than French wine, even though I do not drink wine. I just like the way they look, okay? But American wines are great. They did not do the right thing, when they started taxing our companies,&#8221; Trump said.Referring to his conversation with Macron, the president said he shared a good relationship with his French counterpart.<br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">&#8220;But they should not have done this. They are used to taking advantage of the United States, but not with me as the president,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would impose tax on French wine in retaliation of France&#8217;s digital tax that would impact American companies.&#8220;I told him (French President Emmanuel Macron) don&#8217;t do it, because if you do it, I&#8217;m going to tax your wine &#8212; tariff or tax &#8212; call it whatever you want. So, yeah, we are working on that right now,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House.Earlier, Trump spoke to Macron over phone, during which the two leaders discussed a host of issues, including addressing the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23462,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23458\/revisions\/23462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}