Overview

• In a Truth Social post on Monday, the president warned of “significant additional tariffs” and possible export restrictions on U.S. technology and chips for countries with digital taxes or rules he deems discriminatory.
• He did not name specific countries, though the comments were widely read as referring to EU measures such as the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act as well as UK digital taxes.
• The warning follows a late-July U.S.–EU tariff arrangement that set a 15% duty on most EU products imported into the United States.
• EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič has stated that digital regulation was excluded from those trade talks and stressed the bloc’s regulatory autonomy.
• The European Commission says its digital laws are intended to curb the market power of large tech firms and protect users, with past fines for Meta and Apple and ongoing cases involving X.