President Trump said he would retaliate with 100% tariffs against countries that levy digital taxes on U.S. companies, Taiwan’s Liberty Times reported. Digital taxes seek to tax big tech firms’ revenue, and Washington has objected that they discriminate against American companies.

The warning reaffirms the Trump administration’s pattern of using tariffs to pressure trade policy. A 100% tariff would effectively deal a heavy blow to the targeted country’s exports, reading as both a bargaining chip and a threat.

Countries weighing or running digital taxes must now balance the risk of U.S. retaliation against their own tax revenue. It is also likely to complicate multilateral talks on global digital taxation.

Export-reliant Asian trading economies such as Korea and Taiwan are watching closely where Washington’s tariff threats point. Even if not direct targets, the very normalization of ‘tariff retaliation’ is a burden.

Sinophone Bridge Times views trade disputes not through one side’s rhetoric but through their consequences—tracking, factually, whether threats become actual tariffs and at what cost they return to Chinese-community firms and consumers.