WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald

Trump on Monday threatened countries that have digital taxes

with "subsequent additional tariffs" on their goods if those

nations do not remove such legislation.

Sources said earlier that the Trump administration was

considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state

officials responsible for implementing the bloc's landmark

Digital Services Act.

Many countries, particularly in Europe, have levied

taxes on the sales revenue of digital service providers,

including Alphabet's Google, Meta's Facebook,

Apple ( AAPL ) and Amazon ( AMZN ). The issue has been a

longstanding trade irritant for multiple U.S. administrations.

"With this TRUTH, I put all Countries with Digital Taxes,

Legislation, Rules, or Regulations, on notice that unless these

discriminatory actions are removed, I, as President of the

United States, will impose substantial additional Tariffs on

that Country's Exports to the U.S.A., and institute Export

restrictions on our Highly Protected Technology and Chips,"

Trump said in a social media post.

In the post, Trump claimed that such legislation was

"designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology"

and that it gave a pass to firms from U.S. tech rival China.

Trump has also previously threatened to impose tariffs on

countries like Canada and France over differences related to the

digital services taxes.

Trump in February ordered his trade chief to revive

investigations aimed at imposing tariffs on imports from

countries that levy digital service taxes on U.S. technology

companies.