WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to consider retaliatory tariffs against European countries and Canada for their digital services tax on U.S. tech giants.
This could effectively become the first round of reciprocal tariffs that Trump said would be imposed. On Feb. 13, he ordered probes into countries that have higher tariffs or non-tariff trade barriers against American goods entering their markets. The U.S. government had said countries that impose a digital services tax could be targeted.
