In a post on his Truth Social platform, D. Trump stated that the bloc “will pay a very heavy price for this illegal and highly unethical behavior, which I constantly warned them about.”
He declared that he would “immediately launch an investigation under Section 301” into what he called the EU’s practice of “ROBBING” American companies, adding that he foresees imposing a “significant TARIFF” on the EU “as soon as possible.”
“The United States is not Europe’s ‘PIGGY BANK,’ and we will not allow it to be,” he wrote.
Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act allows Washington to investigate foreign practices it deems discriminatory and to take retaliatory tariff measures.
The EU fined US tech giant Google two penalties totaling 890 million euros on Thursday.
The EU fined the US giant 460 million euros for illegally prioritizing its own services in search results – such as Google Flights or Google Hotels – over competitors.
A second fine of 430 million euros was imposed because Google prevented app developers from showing users offers outside the Google Play store for free, the European Commission announced.
“With this decision, we want to ensure more competition and that other companies can also innovate,” said Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the Commission responsible for technological sovereignty, security, and democracy.
A senior EU official stated that Google “still” prioritizes its own services, but the second fine covers the period from March 2024 to December 2025.
These fines are the largest ever imposed on a single company under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) after the EU fined Meta and Apple 200 million and 500 million euros respectively in 2025.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer warned on Thursday that the EU’s decision to impose hundreds of millions in fines on US tech giant Google could harm the EU’s hopes of establishing smoother trade relations with the United States.
“The recent actions taken by the EU (…) pose a real risk to the preservation of transatlantic stability in trade,” Greer noted in his statement, warning that the decisions to impose fines create “immense uncertainty.”
The Trump administration previously accused Brussels of sanctioning US tech companies and threatened retaliatory measures against the EU by imposing tariffs.
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