USTR Greer spoke with EC Trade and Security Minister Sefcovic about digital markets act; US wants changes to the act, Sefcovic says "

Transatlantic friction over the EU's digital rulebook is an established channel rather than a new one: Washington has repeatedly treated the bloc's platform and tech regulation as a disguised trade barrier aimed at US firms, and Brussels has historically defended such rules as sovereign regulation not open to negotiation. Episodes of this kind tend to run long and produce dialogue rather than resolution, with the escalation risk sitting in the threat of tariff or market-access retaliation rather than in the regulation itself. The distinction worth drawing is between cosmetic dialogue, which the conciliatory tone here suggests, and any move to tie digital rules to the broader tariff and trade track, which is where these disputes have bitten before. The actors' prior form matters: the EU side has a record of conceding process, not substance, on flagship regulation, while US pressure on the DMA has so far stopped short of enforcement measures. The follow-ons are whether the dialogue produces a formal channel or working group, and whether US officials link DMA changes to ongoing tariff negotiations. As a headline, this is talk about talks; FX reaction in comparable moments has been negligible absent a concrete retaliatory step.