alt Hacker NewsSo has anyone an idea how those tariffs would affect software sales? Say I'm a German guy selling a license for my software to someone in the US. Will this fall under tariffs, too. Or are software licenses somehow exempt? Asking for a friend(me).
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comrade1234 • yesterday at 8:25 AM
It won’t unless you’re shipping an item to the USA.
I think the eu should look into taxes on u.s. services, instead of tariffs on products. Taxing AWS/Azure/etc +25% would do a lot in getting similar services in the eu expanded.
My opinion. (Also as a German guy doing a similar thing).
On the first order no. The tariffs just announced are only on goods and are collected at the ports when you physically import them.
On the second and third order. What I think will happen is that the EU will mostly retaliate against US services. And then trump might counter retaliate against EU services. So I would start looking for customers outside the US.