Trump vows added tariffs on countries with digital services taxes
US President Donald Trump, European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen, on July 27, 2025, the city of Turnberry, England.
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On Monday, President Donald Trump promised to restrict US chip exports for all countries that do not abolish “important” new tariffs and digital taxes and relevant arrangements.
Trump wrote on the truth Social that digital service taxes or DSTs currently implemented by dozens of countries are “designed to damage or discriminate against American technology”.
“I noticed that as the US President, I realized that all countries with digital taxes, legislation, rules or arrangements will apply important additional tariffs to the US as the US President, unless these discriminatory actions are removed.” written.
Authorized, the US “high -protected technology and chips will launch export restrictions”, he added.
“Respect America and our magnificent technology companies or consider the results!” Trump wrote.
For a long time, Trump has long tried to force US trade partners to reduce structured taxes to the largest and largest technology companies in the world. Meta– Alphabet And Amazon. Also American companies.
Digital service taxes have already proved to be a potential or breaking problem for Trump in the ongoing commercial negotiations of the management.
In June, he announced that he would cut all trade talks with Canada over the tax.
When Otawa quickly canceled his tax just before he was set, the White House said that Canada was “cave” for pressure.
Digital service taxes such as Canada have created a two -party criticism in the United States, the home of most of the major technology companies subject to taxes.
In 2023, he warned the Senate Finance Committee President and the US Trade Representative. Ottawa’s tax He would subject “innovative American companies to arbitrary discrimination”.
However, countries that put into force digital service taxes argue that they work within the boundaries of large technology titans such as Amazon and produce large profits from their citizens unless they pay very little tax to the relevant governments or pay any tax.
