{"id":148100,"date":"2025-08-26T20:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/trump-threatens-tariffs-and-export-curbs-on-digital-taxes"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:53:17","slug":"trump-threatens-tariffs-and-export-curbs-on-digital-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/trump-threatens-tariffs-and-export-curbs-on-digital-taxes","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens Tariffs and Export Curbs on Digital Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>US President Donald Trump threatened Monday to impose sweeping new tariffs and export restrictions on countries with digital services taxes, which he said unfairly target American technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the President of the United States, I will stand up to Countries that attack our incredible American Tech Companies,\u201d Trump wrote on the US social media company Truth Social\u2019s platform, which he owns.<\/p>\n<p>He said digital services taxes and related rules \u201care all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology\u201d while giving \u201ca complete pass to China\u2019s largest Tech Companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this TRUTH, I put all Countries with Digital Taxes, Legislation, Rules, or Regulations on notice that unless these discriminatory actions are removed, I, as President of the United States, will impose substantial additional Tariffs on that Country&#8217;s Exports to the U.S.A., and institute Export restrictions on our Highly Protected Technology and Chips,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Digital service taxes have long been a flashpoint in trade talks, as they largely affect US tech giants such as Amazon, Alphabet and Meta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Kenya<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. US President Donald Trump threatened Monday to impose sweeping new tariffs and export restrictions on countries with digital services taxes, which he said unfairly target American technology companies. \u201cAs the President of the United States, I will stand up to Countries that attack our incredible American Tech Companies,\u201d Trump wrote on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":148098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[14761,14934,2624,544,1227],"class_list":["post-148100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-chip-exports","tag-digital-services-taxes","tag-donald-trump","tag-kenya","tag-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Threatens Tariffs and Export Curbs on Digital Taxes - 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