President Donald Trump on Aug. 25 threatened to restrict the export of U.S. advanced technologies like chips and impose additional tariffs on countries that refuse to eliminate digital regulations discriminating against U.S. tech companies.
In a Truth Social post, Trump opposed other nation’s digital taxes and regulations imposed on American companies that he said were intended “to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology.”
“They also, outrageously, give a complete pass to China’s largest Tech Companies. This must end, and end NOW,” Trump said of the lopsided treatment of the United States.
Trump warned that his administration would impose “substantial additional tariffs” on imports from those countries and restrict U.S. protected technology and chip exports, unless they withdraw their “discriminatory” digital taxes and regulations….
Trump Threatens Tariffs for Nations With Digital Taxes on US Tech
