Recession fears are growing as President Donald Trump is threatening to impose 200 percent tariffs on alcohol from the European Union, sending stocks plunging yet again. "I'm not going to bend at all,

In his first term, Trump also targeted the alcohol industry. A series of tit-for-tat tariffs hit alcohol products in the U.S. and the EU. The Biden administration suspended those tariffs, but now the industry is once again in the crosshairs. The industry has still been recovering from that first tariff spat.

President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to impose a 200% tariff on alcoholic beverages imported from the European Union after the EU’s executive body unveiled retaliatory tariffs. The European Commission said Wednesday that it would impose import taxes on $28 billion worth of U.