If Germany wants to tax digital services (meaning all digital services and not just American digital services) that is not a tariff. Germany is free to tax digital services as long at it doesn’t directly target US digital services.
Edit: This comment is a response to the initial text before being edited.
No problem. We all misinterpret things from time to time.
I believe it is important that we don’t blindly accept Trump’s framing that this is a tariff, because that is exactly the framing Trump used to justify his “retaliatory” tariffs from last year.
If it is a TAX specifically on US services, it is a tariff.
But I can see they UK has designed it to go equally for everybody:
IMO we should have a TAX specifically on US tech companies. So they would be easier to replace with European services.
Taxation is not a tariff.
If Germany wants to tax digital services (meaning all digital services and not just American digital services) that is not a tariff. Germany is free to tax digital services as long at it doesn’t directly target US digital services.
Edit: This comment is a response to the initial text before being edited.
Sorry I made a pretty significant edit. Exactly because I found out that the way UK designed it, it is not a tariff.
No problem. We all misinterpret things from time to time.
I believe it is important that we don’t blindly accept Trump’s framing that this is a tariff, because that is exactly the framing Trump used to justify his “retaliatory” tariffs from last year.