A 200 percent tariff is designed to make sure that no Champagne will be shipped to the United States,
We are waiting to see what happens, but it’s not good news,
We need to talk to the Americans to bring the tension back down,
It seems like a deliberate punishment,
It’s just a stressful situation because we don’t know if the tariffs will even happen,
Many of our friends are small producers and they would be hit very hard,
French people are waking up to what’s happening in the United States, and starting to speak about boycotting American products,
So even a 25 percent tariff can easily lead to a 40 to 60 percent increase in prices,
When you have a country as big as ours, with so much diversity of where we can produce wine, inevitably you’re going to find pockets that match the great wine-growing regions in Europe,
I’m sure some (wine) purists would disagree with me, but I definitely think that almost anything you can find in Europe, you can find a great equivalent here in the United States,
Everybody would be negatively impacted in some way, whether indirectly or directly, if these went into effect,
If somebody wanted to find a Champagne alternative here, they would want to look for a sparkling wine made in the United States that says ‘traditional method,’
We're going to win that financial battle."
If the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.”
We want toasts, not tariffs,
The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country,
If you make him unhappy, he responds unhappy,
His tariff policy is erratic, more erratic than April weather,
Congratulations to Chuck Schumer for doing the right thing — Took "guts" and courage!"
I don't even want to imagine that it could come to that,