that they're not going to continue negotiating about a digital text and the head of the treasury stephen nugent basically just sent a letter to add to european countries that well the united states has sort of the point of if you do that and the big digital companies are basically almost all american and if anybody texas american companies then it's the united states so that's sort of where the u.s. government stands and overall i mean the u.s. companies that clearly could afford a bit higher taxes just 5 of the top digital companies here in the united states have a cash flow just cash flow of a good $550000000000.00 that's about $100000000000.00 more than the g.d.p. of austria. so yes so we in for another trade. that's what it looks like we have to wait and see what measures now the european union or some of those nations will take but u.s. president donald trump had made it pretty clear even before those negotiations failed as through that he would retaliate jim he even talked about putting. tariffs on french imports of up to 100 percent whatever the european union might do donald trump could