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XorNottoday at 12:21 PM1 replyview on HN

How would tarrifs be applied on digital services?

Tarriffs are a tax on imports to the US applied by the US government.

You can't tarriff selling a service overseas, in fact since AWS in other countries is a locally incorporated entity you can't even meaningfully demand they charge more AWS in the UK is a separate corporation incorporated and taxed under UK law, for example.


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petcattoday at 12:24 PM

Right, I'm aware of that. Which is why I don't know why you brought up tarriffs in a discussion about the "soft power" that US technology services impose.

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