Las measures that the EU will take against US tariffs Taxes to the region, 20%, may include among other things TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICES AND PRODUCTS Americans. According to The Register, a spokeswoman for the French government has declared, days before the extraordinary meeting of the European Union Trade Ministries, that the response of the block may not be limited only to physical products, but that tariffs could also be applied to services, which can affect the great US technological technological ones.
Sophie Primas, the French government spokeswoman who has pointed out this possibility, has specifically assured that the answer will affect digital services, and that «The second response will cover all products, and I want to emphasize this, the services will be included. He has clarified that these digital services will include those provided by Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple or Microsoft«. The first response to tariffs imposed a few days ago to aluminum and steel already entailed the imposition of tariffs on different United States products last month.
Although the latest USAs announced will cause one of the greatest impacts on world trade in the last 50 years, so far they have excluded services, such as software. But Asia’s technology products have been one of the objectives of this new Trump administration policy. It will also greatly affect its technological ones, since many outsource the production of their products, such as smartphones or computers, to Asia countries affected by strong tariffs from next day 9.
He Ancient Microsoft CEO, Steve BallmerHe has expressed his opinion on US tariffs during the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations, pointing out that «As a Microsoft shareholder, these kinds of things are not good«.
It is clear that they are not, since although Microsoft sells mostly software and services, it has not been fought to lose 165,000 million dollars in market value during the past week. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft He has also dropped on US tariffs that «So far they only apply to products, but can they affect services? Who knows!«.
