Summary:
- Trump Opens Section 301 Investigation On Europe Over Big Tech Fines
- Trump Slaps Forced-Labor Duties On 60 Countries
- Trump Begins Rebuild Tariff Wall After Supreme Court Ruling Earlier This Year
Trump Says US Begins Section 301 Investigation on Europe
President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US will launch a Section 301 investigation into the European Union for "robbing American companies, in turn, the American Taxpayer."
Trump said Brussels is using America as a "PIGGYBANK" by fining Big Tech companies billions and billions of dollars.
Trump listed the technology companies that have been fined a combined billions of dollars:
After having fined Apple, for no reason at all, 15 Billion Dollars, Meta, 3 Billion Dollars, Amazon 2.5 Billion Dollars, and many others, we have just been informed that Google, a truly advanced and amazing group, has been fined yet another 1 Billion Dollars, without explanation. This brings the Google total to over 18 Billion Dollars!
Trump continued:
This illegal and highly discriminatory practice started at these high levels during the first year of the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, but it's not going to continue during the Trump Administration.
He added:
The United States of America is not a "PIGGYBANK" for Europe, nor will we allow it to be!
Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that we will immediately initiate a 301 Investigation into the pract