Trump targets EU digital taxes with 100% tariff threat, raising stakes for transatlantic trade

Analysts at the Centre for European Reform argue Washington is using market access as leverage to shape how other countries regulate and tax US firms, Aslak Berg of the CER wrote that such measures "represent a dramatic attempt to intervene in other countries’ internal regulation and taxation.

This would effectively "condition access to the US market on trading partners’ compliance with US preferences," a precedent the EU "cannot accept," Berg wrote. Their analysis highlights the geopolitical stakes surrounding digital taxation.