The U.S. and France agreed on a truce earlier this week.
Even as U.S.
President Donald Trump, who has criticized the digital tax for unfairly targeting American tech companies, recentlythat the European Union is worse than China in its trading relationship with the U.S. “They know that I’m going to put tariffs on them if they don’t make a deal that’s a fair deal,” Trumpits digital tax through the end of the year in response to U.S. pressure, giving the two countries time to work out a permanent resolution and avoiding the retaliatory tariffs on French goods threatened by the Trump administration.
The digital tax introduced by France last year puts a 3% levy on the digital revenue of big tech companies like Facebook and Alphabet’s Google. The U.S. responded by threatening tariffs ofFrance’s finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, is
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