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USTR Says Section 301 Report on France's Digital Services Tax Coming Dec. 2

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced that it will release a report from its Section 301 investigation on France's Digital Services Tax on Dec. 2. The Nov. 27 press release said that its recommendation of how to respond…

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to the DST will be made at that time. Trade groups, companies and think tanks submitted comments and testified last summer about their problems with the DST (see 1908140023), but several said that tariffs on French imports under Section 301 are not the way to fix the problem. Many of France's most identifiable exports to the U.S. are already targets of tariffs because of the Airbus dispute.