Donald Trump He signed an executive order on Friday to restrict access to American technology, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, to what he calls “foreign adversaries”, among which he lists Cuba.
Under the label of “foreign adversaries”, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and the “regime of the Venezuelan politician Nicolás Maduro” are also identified, according to the text, cited by EFE.
The Executive order It does not specify what measures will be taken to restrict the access of these “foreign adversaries” to American technology.
“Economic Security is National Security”
Trump justifies this decision with the argument that “economic security is national security” and argues that the country must protect its infrastructure and sensitive technologies, from artificial intelligence to semiconductors and advances in biotechnology.
The executive order focuses especially on China, noting that companies linked to Beijing have used investments in the US to access key technologies and that the Chinese government is taking advantage of US technology to modernize its military apparatus.
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From his return to the White House, Trump has announced several restrictions on trade in order to balance the trade balance and press countries such as Mexico and Canada to make concessions in migratory and efforts against drug trafficking.
China has imposed a 10 %tariff, which adds to the rates already applied during its first term (2017-2021).
The new restrictions arrive after Joe Biden took measures to limit exports of semiconductors and artificial intelligence technology to China, which led Beijing to respond with controls to the export of graphite, a key material for the batteries of electric vehicles.
Digital rates and tariffs
On Friday, Trump signed another executive order that threatens to impose tariffs on foreign governments that apply digital rates to US companies.
According to quotation EFEThe order indicates that “foreign governments have exercised an increasing extraterritorial authority over US companies, particularly in the technology sector,” and directly quotes taxes on digital services that apply “several commercial partners” since 2019.
Trump delegates now in the US commercial representative the possibility of “renewing research” on the so -called technological rates of Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria and Turkey, imposed in its first mandate, and if so, ““ Take all appropriate actions ”, which would include the imposition of tariffs.
The order does not mention any concrete company, but mainly affects large technological ones such as Apple, Google (Alphabet subsidiary), Meta and Amazon, who have precisely starred in a sound approach to President Trump since he won the elections in November.
In his first term (2017-2021), Trump ordered to investigate digital rates to his companies abroad and threatened to apply tariffs to the six countries indicated today; Taxes were imposed on the government of his successor, Democrat Joe Biden, and subsequently suspended.
