Trump threatens 100% tariff on countries putting ‘Digital Services Tax on American Companies’

President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to impose a “100% TARIFF” on the goods of any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies.

“This TARIFF will replace Trade Agreements with the country, whether implemented, signed or not,” Trump said. Real Social post.

He added that these tariffs “will be implemented immediately” if countries go ahead with their digital tax plans.

Trump has previously vowed to retaliate against countries that impose digital services taxes, claiming they are unfairly targeting US tech giants. Last year, Trump vowed to cut off all trade talks with Canada over his proposed version of the tax. Ottawa later repealed the tax shortly before it came into effect.

Digital services taxes are generally structured to apply only to the world’s largest and most established technology companies, such as US-based Meta, Alphabet and Amazon.

more than one a dozen countries We implemented digital services taxes. In his Friday afternoon post, Trump singled out “Many European Countries” that he said were considering imposing tariffs.

It’s unclear what legislation would give Trump the authority to immediately impose massive tariffs on individual European countries.

Months ago, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs,” which sought to impose personalized tariff rates on nearly every country in the world. The high court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the Trump administration the authority to unilaterally impose sweeping global tariffs.

Hours after that defeat, Trump announced that he had signed an executive order imposing a new global 10% tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. However, tariffs created using this law can only last 150 days, and any extensions require congressional approval.

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