The Trump administration is pressuring the European Union to limit DMA and DSA regulations that affect technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has issued a message to the European Union, threatening retaliation if the EU continues to target American companies. The message states that the US will impose fees and restrictions on foreign services, specifically naming European companies such as Accenture, DHL, Mistral, SAP, Spotify and Siemens:
“The European Union and some of its member states have persisted in a continuing course of lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives against service providers U.S. U.S. companies provide important free services to EU citizens and reliable business services to EU companies, supporting millions of jobs and more than $100 billion in direct investment in Europe. The United States has raised concerns with the EU on these issues without meaningful engagement or basic recognition of U.S. concerns.
If the EU and its member states persist in restricting and preventing the competitiveness providers US service The United States will take a similar approach to other countries that are pursuing an EU-style strategy in this area.”
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Trump Administration: DMA and DSA Laws Discriminate
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) have forced Apple and other technology companies to make significant changes to their services in the European Union.
Under these laws, several companies have faced fines. Earlier this year, Apple was fined €500 million and Meta €200 million. Just this month, social network X was also fined €120 million for DSA violations, and in September, Google was hit with a €2.95 billion fine for antitrust violations related to its adtech business.
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on the threat posed by “foreign regulations” to American innovation and competitiveness.
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Witnesses included Competere Ltd. CEO Shanker Singham, University of Notre Dame law professor Roger Alford, George Washington University Competition and Innovation Lab Founding Director Aurelien Portuese , and Competition Policy Director for the International Center for Law and Economics Dirk Auer. During the hearing, Representative Scott Fitzgerald stated that the DMA is not aimed at protecting consumers, but at weakening American companies.
“The DMA doesn’t ask whether consumers have been harmed. It doesn’t even ask whether a business has done anything wrong. It asks whether a company is big, successful, and, most importantly, American. If the answer is yes, the rules suddenly change. Common business practices are banned, innovation is treated as a threat, and foreign competitors gain access to data and technology they could never create or gain on their own. This is not competition policy. This is forced redistribution.”
The Computer and Communications Association said the DMA was discriminatorybecause it only applied to select companies, while NetChoice said the EU was “providing countries around the world with a blueprint” for similar regulatory measures.
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“Unlike traditional antitrust and competition laws that apply to all companies, however, these DMA prohibitions apply only to designated companies, creating discrimination between designated and non-designated companies, where non-designated foreign competitors gain an unfair competitive advantage over designated U.S. companies.“.
President Donald Trump has previously criticized the “very unfair” European Union for fines imposed on Apple and Google. In September, he threatened the EU with higher tariffs that would disrupt the trade framework established in July 2025. Trump said Apple should “get its money back” and that the US “cannot allow this to happen to brilliant and unprecedented American ingenuity.”
