Paris ready to take Trump’s tariff threat to WTO

France is ready to go to the World Trade Organization to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to put tariffs on Champagne and other French goods in a row over a French tax on internet companies, its finance minister said Sunday. “We are ready to take this to an international court, notably the WTO, because the national tax on digital companies touches U.S. companies in the same way as EU or French companies or Chinese.

Paris has long complained about U.S. digital companies not paying enough tax on revenues earned in France.

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