France Vows United EU Response to Any U.S. Digital-Tax Sanctions

Any U.S. trade sanctions over digital services taxes will be met with a swift EU-wide response, the French Finance Ministry warned.

“Trade sanctions threats are not acceptable, and the EU would react swiftly and decisively in case they were to materialize,” a spokeswoman for the French Ministry Of Economy and Finance said Friday.

• “In this as in all other trade-related matters, the European Union will react as one,” a spokeswoman for the European Commission said.
• The comments follow a meeting Thursday of EU countries with proposed or enacted digital services taxes named in a U.S. trade investigation. A trade probe ...