FILE PHOTO: Agnes Pannier-Runacher, French Economy Junior Minister, speaks during the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, November 27, 2018. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
PARIS - France will be “pugnacious” over the latest U.S. tariff threats on French products and will not go back on its digital tax plan, junior economy minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday. On Monday, the U.S. government said it may slap punitive duties of up to 100% on $2.4 billion of imports from France of champagne, handbags, cheese and other products, after concluding that France’s new digital services tax would harm U.S. tech companies.
“It is very clear that we do not need to go back on this, with regards to a topic that economically speaking makes sense,” Pannier-Runacher told Sud Radio, referring to the digital tax.Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Andrew Heavens
Even if DT makes a ‘deal’ with France, the hostile way in which the whole process has occurred will give yet another erstwhile ally pause for thought and continue to expand relationships with others. From one who hopes for a change in 2020.
Trump's threatening countries while at the NATO conference? 🙄 ... NATO plz invoke article 5 on behalf of the US - help us!
A reminder that France is the reason the American Revolution got off the ground and why we have the Statue of Liberty. These are the decent people that Trump picks petty fights with.
Pug a lug
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