# In a live interview, Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses why a tech tax in France will reinforce escalating trade tensions between the US and the European Union

1 Faculty News July 1, 2019 ![CNBC logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027305.jpg?itok=Ipx0jiaQ)>

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I think \[a tax on tech firms\] is going to reinforce the ongoing trade war between the US and the European Union... I don't think it will be focused exclusively on tech."

[Watch the video](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/07/12/frances-proposed-tech-tax-could-reinforce-us-eu-trade-war-prof.html)