A New York vintner raids US wine cellars to skirt Trump’s tariffs

2026-04-01T10:05:12.717Z / Reuters

By Daniel Fastenberg and Emma Rumney

April 1, 2026 10:05 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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[1/6]Bottles of wine at Leon & Son Wine and Spirits in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., March 31, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

• Summary

• Tariffs on European wines prompt US businesses to seek creative solutions
• Chris Leon buys European wines already in US to avoid tariffs
• Vanessa Price says new auction platforms offer alternatives to traditional wine auctions

NEW YORK/LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) – New York wine retailer Chris Leon has a novel strategy to avoid the steep tariffs that have ‌been slapped on imported wines from France and Italy under U.S. President Donald Trump: raiding American wine cellars for bottles already in the country.

Leon, who runs the trendy wine shop Leon & Son in Brooklyn, has turned to hunting down fine European vintages stashed in American basements, ​snapping them up and selling them through online auctions.

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“There’s a lot of wine here already, a lot ​of really good wine,” Leon said, adding that the auction idea offered a solution to tariffs.

His ⁠story is just one example of how business people and entrepreneurs are having to shake things up in response ​to Trump’s tariff salvos against trade partners, which have led to higher import levies for products from medicines to booze.

Leon ​came up with the idea in response to worries about the impact of tariffs on his business, which makes 90% of its revenue from imported wines. Tariffs have been slapped on everything from French champagne to Italian barolo and Spanish rioja as part of Trump’s sweeping ​effort to reshape global trade launched in April last year.

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Wines slated for the first auction include Italian labels no longer ​in production held in a personal collection for years, as well as bottles from a New York restaurant’s cellar linked to old ‌menu pairings ⁠they no longer offer.

‘COME IN AND SHAKE THINGS UP’

European wines faced a 15% levy on arrival in the U.S. under an EU-U.S. trade deal implemented in August. In February a suite of Trump’s tariffs, including on Europe, were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but they were quickly replaced with new levies, including at least 10% for European goods.

Trump argues that the U.S. ​runs deep deficits with many ​trade partners and that his ⁠moves are an attempt to rebalance that.

U.S. wine businesses warned last year that they would take a hit, however. Leon & Son is among thousands of wine firms in the firing line ​who have been forced to get creative.

Some other U.S. wine businesses are switching to ​domestic alternatives or ⁠cheaper imported brands as tariff-related price hikes gather pace in 2026, Reuters reported this week.

Vanessa Price, a wine director, restaurateur and author of Big Macs & Burgundy, said newer auction platforms like the one planned by Leon offer a fresh take on the traditional ⁠model at ​large houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s, which have long offered fine wines ​via auction.

“There is still plenty of room… to come in and shake things up,” Price said. “Because it’s still such a mysterious world for so many ​people.”

Reporting by Dan Fastenberg in New York and Emma Rumney in London; Writing by Emma Rumney; Editing by Hugh Lawson

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

受中东战事影响，澳洲汽油价格飙升，部分地区出现供应短缺。图为悉尼一家暂时关闭的汽油站，油枪都已用停业通知封上。 （法新社）

澳大利亚总理阿尔巴尼斯说，中东战事带来的经济冲击会持续数月。他鼓励民众乘坐公共交通工具。

路透社报道，阿尔巴尼斯星期三（4月1日）发表罕见全国讲话。他就中东局势表明：“我理解大家此刻很难保持乐观。中东战争导致汽油和柴油价格创下历史最大涨幅。”

此前在冠病疫情和2008年全球金融危机期间，澳洲历任总理也发表过全国讲话。

阿尔巴尼斯说：“澳洲并非这场战争的直接参与者，但所有澳洲人都因此承受着更高的价格。这场战争造成的经济冲击会持续数月。”

澳洲约90%的燃料依赖进口。受美国和以色列对伊朗的战争，以及霍尔木兹海峡遭封锁的影响，澳洲汽油价格飙升，部分地区出现供应短缺。

延伸阅读

油价创历史新高 澳洲维州塔州提供免费公交服务 澳洲总理：美以伊战事冲击澳能源供应安全

阿尔巴尼斯呼吁民众“尽自己的一份力”，缓解燃料供应压力，例如不要在本周开始的复活节假期前囤积燃料，并尽量乘坐公共交通工具。

“未来几周，如果可以改乘火车、公交车或有轨电车通勤，请务必这么做。”

阿尔巴尼斯说，未来几个月“可能不会轻松”，但政府会竭尽所能帮助澳洲人。

澳洲目前的燃料库存虽创下15年来新高，但仍远低于国际能源署建议的90天储备水平。

本周早些时候，澳洲政府宣布将汽油和柴油的消费税减半，并免除为期三个月的重型车辆使用费，以便帮助家庭应对战争引发的成本激增。此举带来的政府支出约为25亿5000澳元（约23亿新元）。

受中东战事影响，澳洲汽油价格飙升，部分地区出现供应短缺。图为悉尼一家暂时关闭的汽油站，油枪都已用停业通知封上。 （法新社）

澳大利亚总理阿尔巴尼斯说，中东战事带来的经济冲击会持续数月。他鼓励民众乘坐公共交通工具。

路透社报道，阿尔巴尼斯星期三（4月1日）发表罕见全国讲话。他就中东局势表明：“我理解大家此刻很难保持乐观。中东战争导致汽油和柴油价格创下历史最大涨幅。”

此前在冠病疫情和2008年全球金融危机期间，澳洲历任总理也发表过全国讲话。

阿尔巴尼斯说：“澳洲并非这场战争的直接参与者，但所有澳洲人都因此承受着更高的价格。这场战争造成的经济冲击会持续数月。”

澳洲约90%的燃料依赖进口。受美国和以色列对伊朗的战争，以及霍尔木兹海峡遭封锁的影响，澳洲汽油价格飙升，部分地区出现供应短缺。

延伸阅读

油价创历史新高 澳洲维州塔州提供免费公交服务
澳洲总理：美以伊战事冲击澳能源供应安全

阿尔巴尼斯呼吁民众“尽自己的一份力”，缓解燃料供应压力，例如不要在本周开始的复活节假期前囤积燃料，并尽量乘坐公共交通工具。

“未来几周，如果可以改乘火车、公交车或有轨电车通勤，请务必这么做。”

阿尔巴尼斯说，未来几个月“可能不会轻松”，但政府会竭尽所能帮助a澳洲人。

澳洲目前的燃料库存虽创下15年来新高，但仍远低于国际能源署建议的90天储备水平。

本周早些时候，澳洲政府宣布将汽油和柴油的消费税减半，并免除为期三个月的重型车辆使用费，以便帮助家庭应对战争引发的成本激增。此举带来的政府支出约为25亿5000澳元（约23亿新元）。

部分企业担心，已结算的关税退款程序复杂，成本可能高于可退金额。 （路透社 ）

（华盛顿综合电）美国海关与边境保护局说，当局正推进一套简化的退税流程，但新系统审核和处理申请可能需要长达45天。

海关执行主任洛德星期二（3月31日）在提交法院的文件中说，新的退款申请系统已完成60%至85%，将分阶段受理。首阶段优先处理近80天内已结算或仍在审查的进口记录，包括仓储及提货相关申报。

数据显示，已有2万6664名进口商完成电子退款流程，涉及金额约1200亿美元（约1540亿新元），占相关关税缴纳额的78%。

最高法院上月裁定总统特朗普依据《国际紧急经济权力法》实施的大范围关税不合法，涉及金额约1660亿美元。有关退款安排交由纽约国际贸易法院处理。

初期系统只能处理约63%的申报，约三分之一进口记录暂时无法纳入，后续开放时间未定。部分企业担心，已结算的关税退款程序复杂，成本可能高于可退金额。

专家指出，新系统可分阶段受理退税申请，初期无法覆盖全部申报。海关承诺退款将支付利息，也可避免进口商通过诉讼申请退税。

此前，国际贸易法院法官伊顿要求政府用现有系统启动退款，但海关改为推动新系统，目标最早下月开始受理申请。特朗普早前说，退款过程可能长达五年。

部分企业担心，已结算的关税退款程序复杂，成本可能高于可退金额。 （路透社 ）

（华盛顿综合电）美国海关与边境保护局说，当局正推进一套简化的退税流程，但新系统审核和处理申请可能需要长达45天。

海关执行主任洛德星期二（3月31日）在提交法院的文件中说，新的退款申请系统已完成60%至85%，将分阶段受理。首阶段优先处理近80天内已结算或仍在审查的进口记录，包括仓储及提货相关申报。

数据显示，已有2万6664名进口商完成电子退款流程，涉及金额约1200亿美元（约1540亿新元），占相关关税缴纳额的78%。

最高法院上月裁定总统特朗普依据《国际紧急经济权力法》实施的大范围关税不合法，涉及金额约1660亿美元。有关退款安排交由纽约国际贸易法院处理。

初期系统只能处理约63%的申报，约三分之一进口记录暂时无法纳入，后续开放时间未定。部分企业担心，已结算的关税退款程序复杂，成本可能高于可退金额。

专家指出，新系统可分阶段受理退税申请，初期无法覆盖全部申报。海关承诺退款将支付利息，也可避免进口商通过诉讼申请退税。

此前，国际贸易法院法官伊顿要求政府用现有系统启动退款，但海关改为推动新系统，目标最早下月开始受理申请。特朗普早前说，退款过程可能长达五年。

Not just the base: Democrats in recent elections are flipping independent and Republican votes

2026-04-01T10:00:57.322Z / CNN

By Edward Wu, Molly English

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2026, 6:00 AM ET

Photo Illustration by Jason Lancaster/CNN/Getty/AP Images

Two special election victories in Florida provided more evidence that the Democratic success in elections since Donald Trump’s return to the White House rests not just on a motivated base but also on winning over Republicans and independents.

More registered Republicans than registered Democrats voted in two special elections on March 24, according to turnout data from election officials. In state House District 87, the district including Mar-a-Lago that was flipped by Democrat Emily Gregory, voter turnout was 46% Republican to 36% Democrat. In state Senate District 14, Democrat Brian Nathan finished ahead in a race with 46% GOP turnout versus 37% Democrat.

In both races, Gregory and Nathan overperformed 2024 presidential margins by an amount larger than the shift in partisan turnout.

That suggests that Democratic success was not just from turning out their base — some combination of registered Republicans and unaffiliated voters likely also broke toward the Democratic candidates.

For example, in the district that included Mar-a-Lago, had all the registered Republicans voted for Jon Maples, the GOP candidate, voters not affiliated with either major party would have broken for Gregory roughly 84% to 16%. And if unaffiliated voters instead split evenly, then about 13% of registered Republicans would have voted for Gregory. In 2024, unaffiliated voters were more likely to vote for Republicans (assuming similar defection rates among the two parties).

When asked about the results in Senate District 14, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded Tuesday that the Republican loss despite an apparent GOP turnout advantage suggested both poor performance with independents and that “Republicans are voting the other way.” He also noted his differences with Jane Tomkow, the Republican who lost to Gregory.

Both Gregory and Nathan said their outreach across party lines focused on concerns about rising cost of living summed up in one political buzzword: affordability.

“I made sure I wasn’t staying in just Democratic rooms,” Nathan told CNN, adding that he went “where the regular people go, where they’re not divided up by party lines.”

Those places included a Publix parking lot, where Nathan said he stood outside and handed out campaign literature on Election Day.

“Everybody goes to the grocery store, so it was just finding people where they’re at and then talking to them about the issues that are actually top of mind for them,” Nathan said. He added that his conversations with voters “always came back to affordability in one form or another.”

“There are partisan issues,” he said, “but affordability kind of trumps them all.”

Gregory emphasized that she tried to meet voters where they were. She told CNN that “affordability is a broad term” and what that means varies by community.

“Specifically in District 87, that looks like property insurance, that looks like health care, and that looks like public schools,” Gregory said. “I think a different community in Georgia or South Carolina or New Jersey, they may have affordability issues, but you can’t just copy-paste.”

Democratic overperformance has consistently outpaced change in partisan turnout

CNN examined the two statewide races and three special elections for US House held in states where voters can register with a party.

In all five races, registered Democrats improved their turnout relative to 2024. And in each case, Democratic overperformance in actual votes relative to the 2024 presidential race also exceeded the shift in partisan turnout.

Party registration is not the same as party identification or vote choice. It’s possible that the Democratic candidates in these and the Florida state legislature races received votes from registered Republicans and independent voters who are consistent Democratic voters, for example. In some cases, voters who initially register with one party may later identify with another, and neither party identification nor registration means a voter always sides with their chosen party.

Still, defections among registered Republicans were a mathematical certainty in the special election in Florida’s 1st Congressional District last April. Nearly 58% of ballots were cast by registered Republicans, yet Republican candidate Jimmy Patronis received just under 57% of the vote.

In New Jersey’s 2025 gubernatorial race, there were signs before Election Day that now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s campaign was reaching Republicans and independents, according to Jackie Burns, a senior adviser.

“We had people coming up to us all the time on the campaign trail that said, ‘I’m an independent. I voted for Trump, but I’m backing Mikie Sherrill,’” she said.

A midday event in bright-red Ocean County just before Election Day garnered hundreds of people, according to Burns. Although Ocean County ultimately voted for Republican Jack Ciattarelli, every county in the state shifted toward Democrats in 2025.

A local issue that spoke to Republicans and independents across the board was the threat by Trump to halt funding to the Gateway Tunnel, a $16 billion commuter rail project between New Jersey and New York. Sherrill and her allies accused Ciattarelli of not doing enough to push back against the White House.

Burns argued that Ciattarelli’s reaction “really frustrated and, quite frankly, angered independents and some moderate Republicans that this guy was not going to fight for New Jersey.”

CNN’s exit polls from last November also found a considerable Democratic advantage in persuasion. In three statewide races, defections were higher among Trump 2024 voters than voters for former Vice President Kamala Harris: Seven percent of Trump voters voted for the Democratic candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia (compared with 3% of Harris voters in New Jersey and 1% in Virginia who backed the Republican candidates). In California, 12% of Trump supporters voted for the Democratic-backed ballot measure to redraw US House districts (5% of Harris voters opposed the measure).

In all three states, voters who supported neither Trump nor Harris in 2024 broke heavily for the Democratic side.

US Supreme Court considers Trump’s effort to limit birthright citizenship

2026-04-01 10:02 UTC / Reuters

By Andrew Chung

April 1, 2026 10:02 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

Summary

• Trump signed executive order on first day back in office
• Babies born in the US are recognized as American citizens
• Trump policy targets children of certain immigrants
• Constitution’s post-Civil War 14th Amendment in focus

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider the legality of President Donald Trump’s directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious plan tied to ​his efforts to curb immigration that would upend the long-held understanding of a key constitutional provision.

The justices will hear arguments in his administration’s appeal of a ‌lower court’s decision that blocked his executive order directing U.S. agencies not to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident, also called a “green card” holder.

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Trump plans to attend the arguments, according to his official schedule.

His policy violated citizenship language in the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment as well as a federal law codifying birthright citizenship rights, the lower court found, acting in ​a class-action lawsuit by parents and children whose citizenship is threatened by the directive.

Limiting who qualifies for citizenship at birth is a top priority for the Republican president, who ​issued the order last year on his first day back in office as part of a suite of policies to crack down on legal ⁠and illegal immigration. Critics have accused him of racial and religious discrimination in his approach to immigration.

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The 14th Amendment has long been interpreted as guaranteeing citizenship for babies born in the ​United States, with only narrow exceptions such as the children of foreign diplomats or members of an enemy occupying force.

The provision at issue, known as the Citizenship Clause, states: “All persons born or naturalized ​in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

The administration has asserted that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means that being born in the United States is not enough for citizenship, and excludes the babies of immigrants who are in the country illegally or whose presence is lawful but temporary, such as university students or those on work visas.

Citizenship ​is granted only to the children of those whose “primary allegiance” is to the United States, including citizens and permanent residents, the administration has argued. Such allegiance is established through “lawful domicile,” which lawyers ​for the administration define as “lawful, permanent residence within a nation, with intent to remain.”

‘BIRTH TOURISM’

The administration has said that granting citizenship to virtually anyone born on U.S. soil has created incentives for illegal immigration and ‌led to “birth tourism,” ⁠by which foreigners travel to the United States to give birth and secure citizenship for their children.

An eventual ruling by the Supreme Court endorsing the administration’s view could affect the legal status of as many as 250,000 babies born each year, according to some estimates, and require the families of millions more to prove the citizenship status of their newborns.

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War of 1861-1865 that ended slavery in the United States, and overturned a notorious 1857 Supreme Court decision that had declared that people of African descent ​could never be U.S. citizens.

Concord, New Hampshire-based U.S. ​District Judge Joseph Laplante last July let ⁠the challenge to Trump’s order by these plaintiffs proceed as a class, allowing the policy to be blocked nationwide.

The challengers have said the Supreme Court already settled the question of birthright citizenship in an 1898 case called United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which recognized that the 14th Amendment grants ​citizenship by birth on U.S. soil, including to the children of foreign nationals.

The administration contends that the 1898 precedent supports Trump’s order ​because, according to the court’s ⁠ruling in that case, at the time of his birth, Wong Kim Ark’s parents had permanent domicile and residence in the United States.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule by the end of June.

The court last year gave Trump an initial victory in the birthright citizenship context in a ruling restricting the power of federal judges to curb presidential policies nationwide. Though arising from early-stage judicial rulings declaring Trump’s directive ⁠unconstitutional, the ​court’s ruling did not resolve its legality.

The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has backed Trump on other ​major immigration-related policies since he returned to the presidency. It let Trump expand mass deportation measures on an interim basis while legal challenges play out, such as ending humanitarian protections for migrants or allowing them to be deported to countries where they ​have no ties.

Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

尹锡悦涉嫌带头发动内乱，一审被判无期徒刑，但他在韩国仍有众多追随者。今年2月19日，支持尹锡悦的韩国人在首尔中央地方法院外示威，有人高举“尹锡悦无罪”的标语牌。 （路透社）

韩国法务部资料显示，前总统尹锡悦羁押在看守所近八个月里，收到支持者等方面的顾送款逾12亿韩元（约102万新元），相当于现任总统今年年薪的4.6倍。

韩联社报道，韩国国会法制司法委员会方面星期三（4月1日）从法务部获得的一份资料显示，尹锡悦去年7月10日再次被捕之后，至今年2月15日，收到顾送款达12亿6236万韩元。

顾送款指的是看守所被羁押人员亲友等为他预存的款项，用于被羁押者在看守所中的个人生活费用。

截至去年10月26日，尹锡悦收到顾送款约6亿5000万韩元；之后的100多天内，增额超过6亿韩元。

从去年7月至今年3月，尹锡悦取款次数为358次，日均1.4次。他的夫人金建希去年8月12日被捕，截至今年3月15日收到顾送款9739万韩元。

尹锡悦涉嫌带头发动内乱案一审今年2月宣判，尹锡悦被判无期徒刑。

金建希涉嫌贪污受贿案今年1月一审判决，她被判有期徒刑一年八个月，追缴赃款1281.5万韩元。

尹锡悦羁押八个月收百万顾送款 为总统年薪四倍多

2026年4月1日 17:39 / 联合早报

尹锡悦涉嫌带头发动内乱，一审被判无期徒刑，但他在韩国仍有众多追随者。今年2月19日，支持尹锡悦的韩国人在首尔中央地方法院外示威，有人高举“尹锡悦无罪”的标语牌。 （路透社）

韩国法务部资料显示，前总统尹锡悦羁押在看守所近八个月里，收到支持者等方面的顾送款逾12亿韩元（约102万新元），相当于现任总统今年年薪的4.6倍。

韩联社报道，韩国国会法制司法委员会方面星期三（4月1日）从法务部获得的一份资料显示，尹锡悦去年7月10日再次被捕之后，至今年2月15日，收到顾送款达12亿6236万韩元。

顾送款指的是看守所被羁押人员亲友等为他预存的款项，用于被羁押者在看守所中的个人生活费用。

截至去年10月26日，尹锡悦收到顾送款约6亿5000万韩元；之后的100多天内，增额超过6亿韩元。

从去年7月至今年3月，尹锡悦取款次数为358次，日均1.4次。他的夫人金建希去年8月12日被捕，截至今年3月15日收到顾送款9739万韩元。

尹锡悦涉嫌带头发动内乱案一审今年2月宣判，尹锡悦被判无期徒刑。

金建希涉嫌贪污受贿案今年1月一审判决，她被判有期徒刑一年八个月，追缴赃款1281.5万韩元。

Former U.S. ambassador to NATO warns of ‘difficult options’ ahead in Iran conflict

2026-04-01 11:46:44 / CNN

Former U.S. ambassador to NATO warns of ‘difficult options’ ahead in Iran conflict

CNN This Morning

Fmr. U.S. ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns tells CNN’s Erica Hill that walking away while Strait of Hormuz is closed would be the “height of irresponsibility”

4:34 • Source: CNN