French wine vs US tech prowess: new Trump-Macron standoff


  • TECH
  • Monday, 29 Jul 2019

Trump insisted Friday that he has a good relationship with Macron and had just spoken with him.

PARIS: France is pushing ahead with a landmark tax on tech companies like Google and Facebook despite US President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs on French wine. 

That’s rattling French vintners, who sold €1.6bil (RM7.33bil) worth of wine last year to American consumers. But neither Trump nor French President Emmanuel Macron appears ready to back down. 

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