The U.S. announced 25% tariffs on a series of French goods worth about $1.3 billion, in a long-running battle between the two countries over taxes on technology giants. “We call on the U.S. to return to the OECD negotiations on taxing digital giants,” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in Brussels. “Sanctions are not a way of operating between countries that are friends, as the U.S. and France are.”

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