Trump Vows Export Curbs, Tariffs in Digital Tax Reprisal

Trump Threatens Tariffs, Export Curbs to Combat Digital Tax

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By Jennifer A Dlouhy and William Horobin

August 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM EDT

Updated on

August 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM EDT

US President Donald Trump threatened to impose fresh tariffs and export restrictions on advanced technology and semiconductors in retaliation against other nations’ digital services taxes that hit American technology companies.

Trump posted on social media Monday that the measures “are all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology” and “outrageously, give a complete pass to China’s largest Tech Companies.”