{"id":547649,"date":"2026-04-24T04:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547649\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:35:16","slug":"uk-to-face-big-tariff-if-it-doesnt-drop-tech-tax-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547649\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to face &#8216;big tariff&#8217; if it doesn&#8217;t drop tech tax, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said the \u200cUnited States will retaliate \u200cwith a &#8220;big tariff&#8221; if Britain continues to \u200btarget companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, Alphabet&#8217;s Google and Meta with its technology tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The United Kingdom rolled \u200cout its 2% \u2060digital services tax in 2020, a move that \u2060has been criticized by Trump and his predecessor Democrat Joe \u200bBiden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;If they \u200bdon\u2019t drop \u200bthe tax, we\u2019ll \u200cprobably put a big tariff on the UK,&#8221; the president told reporters during a White House event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">His comments come ahead of \u200ca visit by Britain&#8217;s \u200bhead of state, \u200bKing \u200bCharles, next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Trump said \u200che believes the monarch \u200bcould help \u200brepair the Washington&#8217;s relationship with the British, which has \u200bbecome strained \u200cin recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Jasper \u200bWard in Washington; Editing \u200bby Chris Sanders)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said the \u200cUnited States will retaliate \u200cwith a &#8220;big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[188572,141,59,844,57,58,50,188573,675,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-547649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-digital-services-tax","tag-donald-trump","tag-gb","tag-google","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-target-companies","tag-the-united-states","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}