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Where do the profits go? French companies take their profits to france.

And where will that non-French competitor have its plants located? Could be the US or some other country. Assuming that the lost job will stay in America is without basis.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"And where will that non-French competitor have its plants located? Could be the US or some other country"

Not if it is a hotel chain or yogurt maker, or any of the other French-owned businesses that would not be employing Americans unless they HAD to for economic reasons.