{"id":25553,"date":"2026-07-24T22:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=25553"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:45:58","slug":"tramp-myta-yes-shtrafy-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/world\/tramp-myta-yes-shtrafy-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has threatened the EU with tariffs over fines imposed on US tech companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">US President Donald Trump has threatened the European Union with a \u00abvery high price\u00bb over fines totalling around \u20ac900 million imposed on American technology companies, including Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon. He stated that Washington would launch an investigation into the EU\u2019s actions and could impose significant tariffs on the bloc in the near future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump linked potential US tariffs to the EU\u2019s fines on technology companies.<\/li>\n<li>Washington, he said, will launch an investigation into the European Union\u2019s actions.<\/li>\n<li>The European Commission has fined Google \u20ac890 million in relation to two breaches of the Digital Markets Act.<\/li>\n<li>Google must remedy the infringement within 60 days.<\/li>\n<li>The details of the potential US tariffs have not yet been announced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The EU\u2019s concerns regarding technology platforms<\/h2>\n<p>The EU accuses US tech companies of breaching competition rules and digital legislation. The European Commission\u2019s most recent decision concerns Google: on 23 July, the company was fined a total of \u20ac890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA).<\/p>\n<p>The \u20ac460 million fine relates to the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/science-tech\/google-antymonopol-shveytsariya-android\/\">Google.<\/a>, according to the Commission\u2019s findings, gave its own services higher visibility in search results than third-party offerings. This relates, in particular, to results for shopping, hotels, transport and sport. A further \u20ac430 million relates to restrictions on Google Play which prevented developers from informing users about alternative purchasing methods and from concluding transactions outside the Play ecosystem.<\/p>\n<h2>What the European Commission is demanding of Google<\/h2>\n<p>The decision is not limited to a fine. The European Commission has ordered Google to remedy the identified infringements within 60 days. Should Google fail to comply, the Commission may impose periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of the company\u2019s total worldwide turnover.<\/p>\n<p>Google, through its spokesperson Jos\u00e9 Castaneda, stated that it had made efforts to comply with the DMA and expressed concern about the implications of the Commission\u2019s decision. This is the company\u2019s position, whilst the European Commission considers the infringements to have been established.<\/p>\n<h2>Fines under the DMA are not the same as those in previous antitrust cases<\/h2>\n<p>The DMA imposes pre-defined obligations on large platforms that the EU classifies as \u00abgatekeepers\u00bb. The current decision regarding Google was adopted specifically under this regulation, rather than as part of traditional antitrust proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, on 2 July, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld a fine of approximately \u20ac4.1 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/science-tech\/google-android-poshuk-dma-yes\/\">in the Google Android case<\/a>. It concerned practices relating to Android and the pre-installation of Google apps. These amounts and cases should not be confused: the decision under the DMA is a separate proceeding.<\/p>\n<h2>The trade dispute could extend beyond the technology sector<\/h2>\n<p>Trump described the fines as a pretext for an investigation into the EU\u2019s actions; however, the exact details of this procedure, the possible tariff rates, the list of goods, the timeframes and the exemptions have not yet been made public. The specific scope of potential US measures is therefore unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The EU fine is directed at specific companies and their practices in the European market. Tariffs, should Washington impose them, could apply to imports of goods from the European Union and affect a wider range of manufacturers and US importers. Given that trade in goods and services between the EU and the US exceeded \u20ac1.7 trillion in 2025, this could intensify pressure in negotiations on market access and non-tariff barriers. However, this is an editorial conclusion: the parameters of the new tariffs have not yet been announced.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US may impose substantial tariffs on the EU in response to fines levied on American tech companies, notably Google, amounting to \u20ac890 million.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433355,"featured_media":25552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u0421\u0428\u0410 \u043c\u043e\u0436\u0443\u0442\u044c \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0434\u0438\u0442\u0438 \u0437\u043d\u0430\u0447\u043d\u0456 \u043c\u0438\u0442\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438 \u0404\u0421 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0437 \u0448\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0444\u0438 \u0430\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u043c \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0456\u044f\u043c, \u0437\u043e\u043a\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0430 Google \u043d\u0430 \u20ac890 \u043c\u043b\u043d.","rank_math_title":"\u041c\u0438\u0442\u0430 \u0421\u0428\u0410 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438 \u0404\u0421 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0437 \u0448\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0444 Google: \u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0430 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f\u0430","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u041c\u0438\u0442\u0430 \u0421\u0428\u0410 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438 \u0404\u0421","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805619],"tags":[806757],"class_list":["post-25553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-806757"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25554,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25553\/revisions\/25554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}