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> than you are to find any EU-based product used widely in the United States.

Spotify?

If you don't mind including companies that offer multiple things: Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, Mistral, SAP

I'm also assuming there that you're only referring to tech products and services, otherwise you probably want to look at the long, long, long list of pharmaceuticals, cars and other products.

I think the issue is more that you don't have a good understanding of which products and services aren't American.

> There is far more leverage with the country exporting goods

True leverage comes from import, not export of goods and materials. The thing that grows GDP is buying materials cheaper from elsewhere, turning them into something and selling on at a healthy margin (whether domestic or as an export).

> then nanny-stating them into a form they think is better.

I'm no fan of nanny-stating, but I don't think that that's the case here.

There certainly are examples of that, but then the ones that I can think of (age verification in particular) are also getting pushed hard in the US. In fact, by all accounts, a lot of that pushing is being driven/funded by Meta



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