US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would put a 200 percent wine tariff on all wines and other alcoholic products coming out of the European Union if the bloc did not remove its tariff on whiskey.

The European Commission said on Wednesday that it will impose counter tariffs on 26 billion euros ($28 billion) worth of US goods from next month, ramping up a global trade war in response to blanket US tariffs on steel and aluminum.

The EU executive said, however, that it remained open to negotiations and considered higher tariffs in no one's interest.

Trump raised the ante in a social media post on Thursday.

"The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the US will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES."

By Park Han-na (hnpark@heraldcorp.com)