Comment by XorNot
3 days ago
Tarrifs cost US consumers not EU consumers.
If the US wants to ban AWS from operating in the EU that's just going to accelerate the shift away, for example.
3 days ago
Tarrifs cost US consumers not EU consumers.
If the US wants to ban AWS from operating in the EU that's just going to accelerate the shift away, for example.
There are no tarriffs being applied on digital services. That's obviously intentional considering how much soft power those services exert on countries the USA wants to maintain an outsized influence over.
How would tarrifs be applied on digital services?
Tarriffs are a tax on imports to the US applied by the US government.
You can't tarriff selling a service overseas, in fact since AWS in other countries is a locally incorporated entity you can't even meaningfully demand they charge more AWS in the UK is a separate corporation incorporated and taxed under UK law, for example.
Right, I'm aware of that. Which is why I don't know why you brought up tarriffs in a discussion about the "soft power" that US technology services impose.
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