France escalating ‘trade war’ through a tax against mainly US-based digital tech; Europe wants countermeasures to Trump’s ‘sanctions warfare’
Paris, France
Migrants staged a major protest in France:
France passes law taxing internet giants
11 July 2019
France imposed a 3% additional tax on companies including Google and Facebook on Thursday, despite US opposition.
Both the French Senate and the lower-house National Assembly supported the move.
The bill is dubbed GAFA for targeting four US heavyweights: Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. However, French officials stressed the law will affect around 30 companies, including some from China, Germany, Spain and the UK, not just the US. The bill focuses on companies using consumer data to sell online advertising, have annual global sales of over 750 million euros, and revenue exceeding 25 million euros in France.
US complains, starts probe
Washington has criticized the move, with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressing concern that Paris was “unfairly” singling out American companies.
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into the move, which could lead to US tariffs or other restrictions. The probe was launched under Section 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974. …
Addressing the French Senate before the Thursday vote, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire this was “the first time in history” that Washington has invoked Section 301 against France.
“Between allies we can and should solve our disputes not by threats but by other means,” Le Maire told senators. https://www.dw.com/en/france-passes-law-taxing-internet-giants/a-49550406
11 July 2019
France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants.
The 3% tax will be levied on sales generated in France by multinational firms like Google and Facebook.
The French government has argued that such firms headquartered outside the country pay little or no tax.
The US administration has ordered an inquiry into the move – which could result in retaliatory tariffs.
The new tax was approved by the French senate on Thursday, a week after it was passed by the lower house, the National Assembly. …
France isolated
Analysis by Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter
This “Section 301” investigation, as it is known, has been used before as a way of eventually implementing new tariffs on countries the Trump administration feels is taking the US for a ride.
If France is going to take hundreds of millions of euros from the pockets of American tech giants, the US argument might be, then why shouldn’t the US earn more money from what the French do in the US? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48947922
Here is more on this:
FACE OFF Donald Trump threatens new trade war with France over Macron’s tax raid on Facebook and Google
11 July 2019
DONALD Trump has threatened to start a trade war with France after ordering a probe into Emmanuel Macron’s tax raid on US tech firms. …
Launching the probe, US Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer said: “The United States is very concerned that the digital services tax which is expected to pass the French Senate tomorrow unfairly targets American companies.” …
USTR said in a statement the “services covered are ones where U.S. firms are global leaders.”
It added: “The structure of the proposed new tax as well as statements by officials suggest that France is unfairly targeting the tax at certain US-based technology companies.”
Lighthizer said Trump “has directed that we investigate the effects of this legislation and determine whether it is discriminatory or unreasonable and burdens or restricts United States commerce.”
In April, Trump threatened to expand his trade war with the EU by slapping tariffs on CHEESE.
The President’s shock $11bn (£8.5bn) move is said to be in retaliation for huge subsidies supporting European aerospace giant Airbus.
The US Trade Representative released a wide-ranging list of goods, including aircraft, cheese and wine, that could be targeted by the White House.
It added that “the time has come for action” unveiling a 14-page tariffs hit list targeting EU products also including butter, fish, jam, olive oil and suits. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9484300/donald-trump-trade-war-france-tax-tech/
So, it looks like the US will take other steps that the French, and probably other Europeans, will not like.
Trade issues were number 8 of 19 items to prophetically watch in 2019.
A reader sent the following from German-Foreign-Policy:
July 11, 2019
The Era of Sanctions Warfare (II)
(Own report) – Berlin and Brussels are weighing countermeasures to the Trump administration’s growing number of extraterritorial sanctions. The US government is seeking to globally enforce its unilaterally imposed sanctions to bind other countries, including allies, to its foreign policy course. The sanctions against Iran are the most prominent example. They also made German business with Iran largely impossible. Washington first implemented extraterritorial sanctions in the mid-1990s, but finally reached agreement with the EU not to enforce them against European companies. This was changed during the Obama administration, when it amassed billions in fines from banks in the EU. The Trump administration has expanded the extraterritorial sanctions to include Russia and Cuba. Following the failure of the INSTEX financial vehicle, German government advisors are proposing that legal action be taken in US courts. Now, “asymmetric countermeasures” are also being discussed. …
Foreign policy experts are further pursuing the debate and proposing, alongside efforts to reinforce the strength of the euro, also “asymmetric countermeasures” to the USA’s and the initiation of an “international dialog” on sanctions. german-foreign-policy.com will soon report. https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/7994/
With the above in mind, notice something in my 2017 book, Donald Trump and America’s Apocalypse:
Donald Trump’s foreign policy statements have unsettled many—in the U.S.A. as well as foreign nations. He seems like he will more unpredictable than Richard Nixon.
There is also something referred to as the “law of unintended consequences.” There are consequences for the U.S.A., Europe, and elsewhere that have and will occur because of Donald Trump’s statements and actions.
This new French tax would certainly seem to qualify as an “unintended consequence” of Donald Trump’s statements and actions.
Europe will take more steps to deal with trade matters.
The Bible shows, that for a time, a European ‘Babylon’ state will dominate world trade:
2 And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.” (Revelation 18:2-3).
But it obviously will not last.
But steps to do so, and to push aside USA dominance are taking place now.
Jesus said:
37 And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!” (Mark 13:37)
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