The Office of the United States Trade Representative This Tuesday he threatened companies in the European Unionsuch as Accenture, Siemens or the Spanish Amadeus, with using “all the tools at their disposal” to prevent Brussels from “discriminating and harassing” their companies in the service sector.
“If the EU and Member States insist on continuing to restrict, limit and deter the competitiveness of US service firms through discriminatory measures, the US will have no choice but to start use all the tools at your disposal to counteract these unjustified measures“, he warned through X.
According to the department headed by Jamieson Greer, “quotas” or “restrictions” could be adopted to the provision of services by foreign companies. Specifically, the ‘post’ has expressly mentioned Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, DHL, Mistral, Publicis, SAP, Siemens or Spotity.
Washington has assured that Brussels is hurting its companies through lawsuits, taxes, fines or directives contrary to their interests. On the contrary, it has maintained that its European counterparts operate “freely” in the United States.
The Government of Donald Trump has also indicated that his country has been conveying its concerns regarding this issue to the EU and capitals for years.without any significant action having taken place or even granted a minimum recognition of their legitimacy.”
Brussels defends that its rules are fair
Following the position of the US authorities, the community spokesperson for Technological Sovereignty, Thomas Regnier, has defended that “The EU is an open, rules-based marketwhere companies from all over the world operate successfully and profitably”, maintaining that they will continue to apply their standards “fairly and without discrimination”.
“As we have made clear on numerous occasions, our rules are applied equitably and fairly to all companies operating in the EU. “These rules guarantee safe, fair and equitable conditions of competition in the EU, in line with the expectations of our citizens,” he declared.
In a statement sent to the media, he recalled that Brussels is implementing the commitments of the joint declaration with Washington and that They continue to collaborate with the Donald Trump Administration “in this sense”.
