The Trump administration singled out European tech firms by name and promised economic consequences Tuesday unless the E.U. rolls back tech regulation and lawsuits.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative, led by Jamieson Greer, said that the European Union had “persisted in a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives” against U.S. companies.
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