The group is urging the Treasury to block Latin American tariffs on US firms

First on fox: A non-profit organization that promotes the protection of free markets is urging the US Treasury Department not to strike any trade or investment agreements with Latin tariffs unless they block US companies.

Public Policy Solutions sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday that states that Latino companies targeting Latino companies, which are subject to fines for providing digital services.

Safeguards in technology policy impose regulatory or other restrictions on foreign companies.

Public policy solutions have also revealed a new report to accompany their letter to Bessent, with the disease “European digital style infecting the Western Hemisphere:

“A growing number of Latin American countries are testing or using digital services taxes, data transfer law, competition frameworks modeled on the EU,” and competition killing rules modeled on the EU, “and competition policy tools that agree with us President and President Joe Grogan said the letter.

“Some of our closest trading partners, including Brazil, Colombia, and Chile, have developed or enacted measures such as Europe’s Digital Act, the Digital Services Act,” said Trogan. “These policies risk repeating the same experience that has ended good competition in Europe.”

The Financial Regulation of the European Union identifies and imposes other laws called “Gate-Keever” of information, including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. Meanwhile, six companies have been targeted, some are Chinese, and none are European, according to a public policy report published in June.

The Digital Services Act seeks to crack down on illegal content and inappropriate information. However, groups like Public Policy Solutions are critical of the law, arguing that it stifles free speech and imposes tougher rules on large corporations. Fifteen companies qualified as the largest online platform (VLOP) are based in the US, and public policy solutions have said this unfairly targets US companies.

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If the company does not comply with the regulations in the Digital Markets Act, penalties are imposed. In April, the European Commission announced that it will hit € 232 million which amounts to more than $ 232 American dollars – Meta violates the options of consumers to use small personal data.

Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

In April, the European Commission announced that it will hit € 200 million – amounting to $ 232 million in US dollars – fine for the violation of the law. (Manuel Orbegozo / Reuters Photos)

Meanwhile, the group says that US companies receive tougher penalties, compared to their Chinese counterparts for similar violations. For example, the group pointed to the EU being paid $1.3 billion earmarked for the EU in May 2023 for sending data to European users in the US, while Tiktok was based in China only in May to send data to European users.

But now, the group is concerned that Central and South American companies are adopting the same playbook as Europe and unfairly targeting US companies amid ongoing trade negotiations with the Trump Administration.

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For example, Chilean prosecutors filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in May, where they wanted to slap $89 million in fines for alleged market dominance. The case came after Chile He passed legislation in 2024 that sought to regulate data collection by technology companies and cross-border data transfers, according to public policy solutions. Under Chile’s new law, each violation faces a fine of $1.4 million.

In addition, Brazil is in the middle of thinking about the legislation that groups say forms are needed after the Digital Marketing Law that will establish the rules of digital marketing for certain companies. Unlike the “GateBleeper” Destruction Markets Act, the proposed Brazilian measure establishes a minimum capital limit that translates to about $ 14 million US dollars, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Meanwhile, public policy solutions also affect Latin America’s ties to China in the technology space. While the first Trump administration protected the use of the Chinese technology company and the Chinese subsidiary of the ZTE technology company ZTE works with the government and contractors, national security concerns, Latin America has become dependent on Huawei.

For example, a new public policy report that says Huawei’s business in Latin America will increase from 2021 to 2022, and the US Institute for peace reports is working on all reports on mobile phones and the Internet in Latin America.

Similarly, the report noted that Brazil’s National Telecommunication Agency revealed in 2024 that Huawei will own more than 44% of Brazil’s 5G infrastructure.

The US is actively involved in trade talks with many countries right now, including Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Argentina.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei speaking at the World Economic Forum. (Fabrice coffriphi / afp / gretty photos)

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Because of this, public policy solutions call on the Trump administration to take part in those who are involved in negative digital policies, and that any future trade agreements with currencies that are discriminated against are “American prejudices.”

Similarly, the group urges the Trump administration to “withhold new relationships or initiatives” from federal governments – until they move to limit access to CCP-linked sensitive data systems.

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“To a large extent, the European Union has used a protective regulatory mechanism in the United States to use American Tech companies and telecommunications companies like ATM while protecting their firms from Fox News Digital.

“Now we see those similar and wrong islands being accepted in our countries behind,” said Grogon. “Our latest report highlights the danger of Latin American countries leaving the European playbook, driving a wedge into our good economic and security relations. At the same time they are rolling out the red carpet for a former adversary partner.”