{"id":727722,"date":"2026-06-26T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727722\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:50:15","slug":"trump-threatens-100-tariffs-on-countries-imposing-digital-services-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727722\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens 100% tariffs on countries imposing digital services tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/108327545-17824916811782491678-46788596373-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"Trump: Countries that impose 'Digital Services Tax' on U.S. companies will be met with 100% tariff\"\/><\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday threatened to impose a &#8220;100% TARIFF&#8221; on the goods of any country that imposes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-tariffs-digital-taxes.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">digital services tax<\/a> on U.S. companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This TARIFF will supersede Trade Deals made with the Country, whether implemented, signed, or not,&#8221; Trump wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116817320899062447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Truth Social post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He added that those tariffs &#8220;will be immediately imposed&#8221; should countries proceed with their digital-tax plans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has previously vowed to retaliate against countries that impose digital services taxes, claiming they unfairly target U.S. tech giants. Last year, Trump vowed to cut off all trade talks with Canada over its own proposed version of the tax. Ottawa subsequently scrapped the levy shortly before it was set to come into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Digital services taxes are typically structured to apply only to the world&#8217;s largest and most established tech companies, like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, which are U.S. firms.<\/p>\n<p>More than a <a href=\"https:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/research\/all\/global\/digital-taxation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dozen countries<\/a> have imposed digital services taxes. Trump&#8217;s Friday afternoon post singled out &#8220;Numerous European Countries&#8221; that he says are considering imposing the taxes.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear which law would give Trump the authority to immediately slap massive tariffs on individual countries.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/20\/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-ruling.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court<\/a> has struck down Trump&#8217;s &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs, which sought to impose individualized tariff rates on nearly every country. The high court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not authorize the Trump administration to unilaterally impose the sweeping global tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after that defeat, Trump announced he had signed an executive order imposing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-global-trade-tariff-supreme-court.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new global 10% tariff<\/a> under\u00a0Section 122\u00a0of the Trade Act of 1974. But tariffs created using that statute can last for only 150 days, with any extension requiring congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose a &#8220;100% TARIFF&#8221; on the goods of any country that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[38080,1540,23,1071,5681,122,1072,12,1922,21218,2195,3,111,74,147571,447,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-727722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-america","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-taxation-and-revenue","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-technology","tag-technology-select-sector-spdr-fund","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}