France is willing to go to the World Trade Organization, as a response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to put tariffs on French goods, over a French tax on tech companies, the country's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said on 8 December.

"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. It is not discriminatory”, Le Maire said.

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