President Donald Trump announced in a late August Truth Social post that all countries with “digital taxes, legislation, rules, or regulations” will face “substantial additional tariffs” from the United States until those barriers are removed. Though Trump did not mention the European Union by name, the EU is his clear target.
The message appeared just weeks after the U.S. and EU signed a much-anticipated joint statement promising to “enhance opportunities for technical cooperation” on “identifying and developing standards for the transatlantic marketplace in key sectors of mutual interest.” While some free traders took a victory lap, they should have known that the détente would be fleeting when the most pressing issues in the trade relationship were left unresolved.
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Logan Kolas is the Director of Technology Policy at the American Consumer Institute, a nonprofit education and research organization. For more information about the Institute, follow us on X @ConsumerPal.