“Europe” hit “today in another great American company, Google, a fine of $ 3.5 billion, practically taking the money that would otherwise go to American investments and jobs. In addition, this is to many other penalties and taxes that were imposed against Google and other American technology companies in particular,” wrote Trump.
“It is a very unfair and American taxpayer does not tolerate it! As I mentioned earlier, my administration will not allow you to maintain these discriminatory actions,” he added.
Donald Trump threatens. “We can't allow”
Trump also recalled an example of fines for the Apple group, claiming that the company should receive money back.
“We cannot allow this to meet a brilliant and unprecedented American ingenuity, and if this happens, I will be forced to initiate proceedings based on section 301 in order to annul the wrong penalties imposed on these American companies paying taxes” – he announced, recalling the provision of the Act on trade of 1974, which allows the President to impose duties or other trade barriers for discriminating. or unfair commercial practices.
Trump's entry is a reaction to the European Commission on Friday about the imposition of EUR 2.95 billion in Google in connection with the violation of the EU antitrust law. In the opinion of the EC, Gigant favored its own advertising technology in relation to other solutions offered by the competition. Google announced an appeal against the EC decision.
Donald Trump met with the boss of the concern
The EC decision occurred shortly after the Federal Court in Washington awarded a relatively mild penalty in a similar antitrust case against Google (it concerned the position of a monopolist in the area of search engines), rejecting the US authorities' request, so that as part of the penalty the concern was forced to sell the Chrome browser or the Android operating system. However, a process of Google practices in the area of online advertising is still underway against a company in the USA.
On Thursday, the head of the Pichai group was one of the guests at dinner in a white house for giant technology bosses. During dinner, Trump favorably spoke about the court's judgment, and he blamed his predecessor for filing the claim.
The end of the EC and the decision on the penalty from 2021 and the decision of the penalty occur at the time of large tensions between Washington and Brussels around EU digital regulations. Recently, President Donald Trump threatened duties and limiting access to advanced American technologies to countries that use digital taxes or regulations.
