{"id":709332,"date":"2026-07-24T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709332\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:13:08","slug":"trump-threatens-eu-with-substantial-tariffs-over-fines-of-us-tech-giants-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709332\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens EU with \u2018substantial\u2019 tariffs over fines of US tech giants | Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> has threatened the European Union with \u201csubstantial\u201d tariffs after Brussels imposed a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/23\/eu-fines-google-for-competition-breaches-over-search-and-apps\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">steep fines<\/a> on US tech giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In a post on his Truth Social platform, the US president wrote: \u201cThe United States of America is not a \u2018PIGGYBANK\u2019 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/europe-news\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>, nor will we allow it to be!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It comes days after Google was fined \u20ac890m by the EU after its search and app store services were found to have breached online competition laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The US will \u201cimmediately\u201d launch an investigation \u201cinto the practice of \u2018ROBBING\u2019 American Companies and, in turn, the American Taxpayer\u201d, Trump said. \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/eu\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Union<\/a> will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has threatened the European Union with \u201csubstantial\u201d tariffs after Brussels imposed a series of steep fines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709332","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=709332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}