Overview
- The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said it will use “all tools” to counter what it describes as unfair targeting of American service providers.
- It stated that U.S. law allows tariffs or limits on foreign services if countermeasures become necessary.
- The USTR named potential targets that include Accenture, DHL, Siemens, Spotify, Mistral, Amadeus, Capgemini, Publicis, and SAP.
- The European Commission responded that its technology rules are applied equally to every company operating in the bloc.
- The exchange features in a wider pattern of Trump-era pressure on Europe that has revived calls for greater EU economic and defense autonomy.