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In Europe, the Trump administration has condemned tech laws and regulatory policies; Beijing, in the past, has stopped exports of rear Earth metals after Trump imposed tariffs on China and Canada recently announced retaliatory tariffs on goods, including steel and aluminium. It is noteworthy that Trump has targeted Europe, China and Canada with a series of tariffs and trade pressures that have escalated tensions between the nations.
The Trump administration is weighing a sweeping round of duties on semiconductors, according to a report by The Politico. Citing eight people familiar with the discussions, the report says that the plan under review will broaden import taxes beyond bare chips to include finished hardware such as servers, consumer laptops and gaming systems. American technology giants pouring billions into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure may soon encounter an obstacle at home: a proposed expansion of US tariffs that may significantly elevate the cost of building data centres.