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David Henig

@davidheniguk
29 posts
2025-12-16
Welcome to a morning of silly hype about UK trade policy.  Part one, “a serious setback in US-UK relations” as “£31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice”?  —  Invented number, good thing if the UK pushes back on US regulatory asks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2025...
2025-12-16 View on X
New York Times

Sources: the US has paused its Tech Prosperity Deal with the UK, signed in September, over frustrations about UK online safety rules and digital services taxes

The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain's digital regulations and food safety rules.

2025-11-29
Almost feels like Macron is going for the history books as the President who warned of the consequences of the EU not taking action, and made sure of it by taking views so different to other countries.
2025-11-29 View on X
Politico

French President Emmanuel Macron criticizes the EU for being too slow to act on probes into Big Tech companies, attributing the delay to US pressure against DSA

www.politico.eu/article/brus... Forums: r/eutech : Macron says Brussels is ‘afraid’ of tackling US Big Tech r/europe : Macron said Brussels is too slow in its handling of probes in...

2025-08-26
Notably the US has not included regulatory asks in its trade napkin deals.  To start sanctioning officials instead would be a stunningly stupid and offensive act, so must be considered a possibility.  Retaliation would be inevitable.  [embedded post]
2025-08-26 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on EU or member state officials that implement the DSA, after US tech company complaints

President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible …

2025-08-18
Looks like, rightly, the EU is playing for time on the rest of the US trade deal other than the headline tariffs.  I wasn't sure if the UK did this deliberately or the US can't really get their act together on the detail, but the Commission will have learnt. www.ft.com/content/3f67...
2025-08-18 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: the EU and the US have delayed formalizing their trade deal partly over “non-tariff barriers”, like relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line

Document formalising last month's deal delayed by squabbles over language on ‘non-tariff barriers’, bloc's officials say

2025-08-11
Payola.  That supposed new US “global” trade system seems to have as one of its core anchors simple bribery. www.ft.com/content/cd1a...
2025-08-11 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the US government 15% of H20 and MI308 chip revenue from China sales, as a condition of export licenses granted last week

Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration  —  Nvidia and AMD have agreed …

2025-07-31
US scrapping of de minimis is very bad news for small businesses around the world, and for consumers to see the benefits of global trade.  But part of a global trend. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/ ...
2025-07-31 View on X
CNBC

Trump signs an EO ending the de minimis exemption for packages worth $800 or less from all countries, after shuttering the loophole for goods from China in May

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order ending the de minimis trade loophole for low-value packages shipped from all countries.

2025-03-22
If the UK deal with the US involves a government struggling for revenue giving up tax in return for the *possible* reduction of tariffs then I don't think this will be seen too positively.  —  Not least given an existing reputation for desperately needing deals.  [embedded post]
2025-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the UK weighs reducing or abolishing its 2% digital services tax on UK revenue of Big Tech companies by April 2 in an effort to avoid some US tariffs

To be continued... David Henig / @davidheniguk : If the UK deal with the US involves a government struggling for revenue giving up tax in return for the *possible* reduction of tar...

Clearly not easy to deal with this Trump administration.  But the broad advice has been for countries to keep a low profile unless clearly threatened.  UK chose to be more active, a higher risk move, with potentially greater benefits.  Or costs.  —  To be continued...
2025-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the UK weighs reducing or abolishing its 2% digital services tax on UK revenue of Big Tech companies by April 2 in an effort to avoid some US tariffs

To be continued... David Henig / @davidheniguk : If the UK deal with the US involves a government struggling for revenue giving up tax in return for the *possible* reduction of tar...

2024-09-18
Apparently, eye watering levels of subsidy were offered to Intel for building this plant. So if this is another tale of industrial policy gone wrong, why does this keep happening across Europe? https://www.politico.eu/...
2024-09-18 View on X
Politico

Intel's decision to delay new Germany and Poland plants by two years is a blow to the EU's goal of making 20% of the world's chips by 2030, up from ~9% in 2022

BRUSSELS — The European Commission's landmark 2022 chips strategy has collapsed just as it laid out a new team to fix the bloc's competitiveness.

2024-08-08
Social media will be regulated because that's ultimately the only way to stop the bad driving out the good. And yes it means developed countries have huge bodies of rules, but nobody's found a better way right now.
2024-08-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Ofcom publishes an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence, following days of rioting in the UK

The U.K.'s internet regulator, Ofcom, has published an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence.

Sadly unavoidable. And applicable even to the very richest social media owners. https://x.com/...
2024-08-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Ofcom publishes an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence, following days of rioting in the UK

The U.K.'s internet regulator, Ofcom, has published an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence.

Social media will be regulated because that's ultimately the only way to stop the bad driving out the good. And yes it means developed countries have huge bodies of rules, but nobody's found a better way right now.
2024-08-08 View on X
Politics.co.uk

In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views

Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …

Sadly unavoidable. And applicable even to the very richest social media owners. https://x.com/...
2024-08-08 View on X
Politics.co.uk

In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views

Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …

2024-06-06
Ah, this would explain why all blood tests were cancelled with immediate effect yesterday. When it comes to national and economic security I worry about the health sector including pharmaceuticals supply far more than anything else.
2024-06-06 View on X
New York Times

Several London hospitals face major disruptions after a June 3 ransomware attack on Synnovis, which provides blood transfusion and other services to the NHS

According to Metro, the incident has impacted transplant surgeries and blood transfusion centers.  —  https://metro.co.uk/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : You'...

2023-06-07
Not much happening on a US-UK digital trade agreement apparently. Useful reminder in here that a successful Sunak visit should definitely include a commitment to renew the trade dialogue which hasn't met in over a year. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-06-07 View on X
Financial Times

UK tech industry insiders say hopes of a quick UK-US digital trade deal have dimmed due to soft-pedaling by the US, with no progress made since April 2022

Financial Times : Tweets: @davidheniguk and @pmdfoster Tweets: @davidheniguk : Not much happening on a US-UK digital trade agreement apparently. Useful reminder in here that a suc...

2023-05-24
Fair to say that in the corporate world the policy of “the west” towards China does not enjoy anything like the same support as it seems to have politically. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-05-24 View on X
Financial Times

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US chip export controls has put the US tech industry at risk of “enormous damage”, as Chinese firms start building their own chips

Jensen Huang tells lawmakers to be ‘thoughtful’ about imposing more export controls on Beijing

2023-03-08
And another one. Corporate welfare is back in a big way! (actually never went away, but the EU and US have created a narrative that essentially says major corporates must be paid large sums of money to set up plants in their territory) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-03-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: after postponing construction at the end of 2022, Intel seeks an extra €4B-€5B from Germany to build its chip plant, taking the expected cost to ~€30B

Intel Corp. is seeking an additional 4 billion to 5 billion euros in subsidies from the German government …

2023-01-04
This was a question I'd asked some time ago with regard to one of the UK's leading sectors, broadcast, as to whether the spending boom would slow or even come to a halt - it appears this could indeed be the case. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-01-04 View on X
Financial Times

Ampere Analysis: a decade-long original TV show spending boom is expected to slow to a crawl in 2023; streaming services will cut growth from 25% in 2022 to 8%

Alex Barker / Financial Times :

2022-12-06
Another potential regulatory dividend defeated by reality, seem to recall at one point there was a suggestion we could be a crypto hub through light touch regulation, but ever more obvious this is just a graft from which consumers need protection. https://www.ft.com/...
2022-12-06 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: the UK Treasury finalizes expanded crypto regulation plans, including letting the FCA restrict how companies run and advertise, after FTX's implosion

Implosion of FTX injects fresh urgency into government's pledge to impose order  —  The Treasury is finalising plans for a package …

2022-10-31
Address concern over the number of ‘real users’ of twitter by charging the ones previously deemed the most important... https://www.ft.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
Washington Post

Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's workforce in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety

The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce  —  SAN FRANCISCO …