Jock Chirac Threatens U.S. with Tax

Chirac warns U.S. of import carbon tax

February 11, 2007
UPI

PARIS (UPI) -- French President Jacques Chirac said Europe will impose a carbon tax on U.S. imports if the United States doesn't sign on to the Kyoto environmental protocol.

"A carbon tax is inevitable," Chirac told The New York Times. "If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay."

Chirac praised U.S. President George Bush's State of the Union address last week for acknowledging climate change was a "serious challenge" but said import taxes remained an option for any countries not in the Kyodo protocol, or its successor when Kyoto expires in 2012.

The European Union is the largest export market for U.S. goods. Some EU trade lawyers studying the carbon tax issue have expressed doubts about its legality, as it would conflict with some existing international trade rules, the report said.

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I think it is sort of funny that France will talk tough to the United States. It's like talking tough to a guy that stronger and yo KNOW he won't kick your ass.

Can't believe Jock Chirac is going to play holier than thou on the Kyoto accords when the blood of our soldiers is on his hands from the corrupt UN Food for Oil program.

TRY and tax us? Does this man not remember how the revolutionary war started?

We should drag the statue of liberty back to them and tell them to stick it up their wimpy french A**!

I am not even close to an economist or a trade expert, but if France imposes a tax on American goods, won't that hurt them more than us?

KING