As US President Donald Trump intensifies a global trade war, his administration is ratcheting up its attacks against foreign governments' regulations on American tech companies, raising the specter of ongoing levies unless nations ease off the industry. The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) last week released a report that called out dozens of regulations placed on Silicon Valley by other countries as “digital trade barriers.” While Trump’s top trade officials are aligning with the tech industry on the issue, his vice president, JD Vance, as a senator, was critical of the sector’s influence over trade policy.