Report claims EU regulations favor Chinese companies, target US tech giants

Exclusive: The non -profit organization, which calls for the protection of free markets, urges the Ministry of Treasury to ensure any trade deals that are negotiated with the European Union (EU) that removes “punitive” taxes, fines and regulations imposed on American companies that provide digital services, according to a message obtained by Fox News Digital.

Public policy solutions sent a letter to Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessin, on Wednesday, claiming that digital service taxes in Europe unlike American companies such as Alphabet, Apple and Meta – and the good of China instead.

The message, which comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States and the European Union are growing near a commercial deal on non -carrier commercial issues, accompanied by a report on the group that was assembled aimed at working as a supplier “during continuous labor discussions and defining specific policies called by the group that is hindered by American companies such as the European Union’s digital market law.

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Digital markets classify and impose additional regulations on seven “gate guards” for information: the alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Betyans, Meta and Microsoft. The report indicated that six of these companies are American, one Chinese, and nothing is European.

Meanwhile, the Digital Services Law aims to conduct illegal content and wrong information, but critics of the law, such as public policy solutions, claims that it restricts freedom of expression and indicates that it imposes tougher rules on the largest companies that meet a specific threshold. Among the 19 companies that qualify as a large online platform (VLOP), there are 15 companies in the United States, which are not fairly targeting American companies, according to public policy.

The co -founder of the co -founder of public policy and President Joe Garujan said in a letter to Pisent: “Digital Services taxes in Europe are unfair and incapable of impartiality on the largest American technology companies with the deliberate exemption of European competitors.” “These measures distort competition, honor the global market, and undermine the meaning of meaningful economic cooperation. Europe cannot impose targeted taxes on American companies as well as negotiating commercial agreements in good faith without meaning meaning in its tactics in this field.”

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Failure to comply with regulations in the digital market law leads to fines. For example, the European Commission announced in April that it would achieve 200 million euros to violate the law, claiming that Meta failed to provide consumer options to use less personal data.

Likewise, public policy solutions claim that American companies are dealing differently from their Chinese counterparts due to similar violations. For example, the group notes that the European Union slapped a dead with a fine of $ 1.3 billion in May 2023 to send data from European users to the United States at the same time, Tiktok was fined in Chinese only $ 600 million in May to send European user data to China.

“While lifting barriers against its nearest economic partner, Europe deepened simultaneously from its exposure and relations with the companies associated with the Chinese Communist Party in critical infrastructure, including 5G and Cloud Services,” said Grugan. “The weaknesses resulting from the joint security interests of the United States and its allies are cut off.”

As a result, the group urges that any trade deals reached with the European Union will remove strict taxes and fines on American companies, cancel the “unfair” regulations listed in the Digital Markets Law and the Digital Services Law, and remove the gate guard names.

The United States set a deadline on July 9 to impose a 50 % tariff on all European Union goods, unless a commercial deal is reached.

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The American commercial actor, Jameson Jarir, the left, and the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Pesin, will participate in a press conference two days of closed discussions on trade between the United States and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, AD. (AP NewsROOM)

The United States ’commercial actor’s office immediately did not respond to a request from Fox News Digital on reports on a deal on non -carrier commercial issues that are close to completion.

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Several members of the Trump administration have issued harsh criticism of European countries and their international bases that American technology companies must follow. For example, Vice Vice President JD Vance allocated the digital services law in February for the “huge regulations” required by American companies.

“The Trump administration is turbulent of reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening screws on international technology companies with international feet,” Vans said at the Paris AI summit in February. “Now, America cannot and you will not accept it, and we think it is a terrible mistake not only for the United States of America but for your countries.”