{"id":43438,"date":"2026-01-20T08:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-threatens-200-tariffs-on-french-wines-and-champagne-whats-the-reason\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:51:15","slug":"trump-threatens-200-tariffs-on-french-wines-and-champagne-whats-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-threatens-200-tariffs-on-french-wines-and-champagne-whats-the-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wines and champagne: what&apos;s the reason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump stated that he would impose a 200% tariff on French wines and champagne to force Emmanuel Macron to join his &quot;Peace Council&quot; initiative. France intends to reject the invitation, and Trump also invited Vladimir Putin to the council.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F01%2F20%2F1768898538-3767-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wines and champagne: what&#039;s the reason?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said he would impose a 200% tariff on French wines and champagne, which, he said, would push French President Emmanuel Macron to join Trump&#039;s &quot;Peace Council&quot; initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, UNN reports with reference to Reuters.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>When asked by a reporter about Macron saying he would not join the board, Trump replied: &quot;He said that? Well, nobody wants him because he&#039;s going to be out of office very soon.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;m going to put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagne, and he&#039;ll join, but he doesn&#039;t have to join,&quot; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, France intends to decline the invitation to join the initiative, a source close to Macron said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump first proposed the creation of a &quot;Peace Council&quot; when he announced his plan to end the war in Gaza last September. But the invitation sent to world leaders last week outlines a broad role in ending conflicts around the world, the publication writes.<\/p>\n<p>According to a document seen by Reuters, a draft charter circulated to some 60 countries by the US administration calls on members to contribute $1 billion in cash if they want their membership to last more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, governments reacted cautiously to Trump&#039;s invitation, a plan that diplomats said could harm the work of the UN.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump also said he had invited Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin to become a member of the &quot;Peace Council.&quot; &quot;He was invited,&quot; Trump confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin claims Putin received an invitation to Trump&#039;s &#039;Peace Council&#039; on Gaza19.01.26, 12:50 \u2022 3360 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump stated that he would impose a 200% tariff on French wines and champagne to force Emmanuel Macron to join his &quot;Peace Council&quot; initiative. France intends to reject the invitation, and Trump also invited Vladimir Putin to the council. US President Donald Trump said he would impose a 200% tariff on French wines and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}