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President Trump says he is “finishing all discussions about trade with Canada, with immediate effect”, after Canada announced a digital services tax on large foreign and national technology companies.

Publishing in Truth Social on Friday afternoon, the president said that the United States will inform Canada what will be its rate rate next week. The explosion of commercial conversations occurs only one week after the president met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the group of seven Economic Summit In Alberta.

“We have just reported that Canada, a very difficult country to trade, including the fact that they have charged our farmers up to 400% tariffs, for years, in dairy products, just announced that they are putting a digital services tax on our US technology companies, which is a direct and evident attack against our country,” the president wrote. “Obviously they are copying the European Union, which has done the same, and is currently under discussion with us, also. According to this atrocious tax, we are finishing all discussions about trade with Canada, immediately.”

The Canada Digital Services Tax, which was promulgated last year, will reach technological giants such as Amazon, Alphabet (the Google parent company), Meta and Uber with a 3% tax on the income of users in Canada. News informs that the retroactive tax bill is expected to cost US companies $ 2 billion, due to the end of June.

The publication came shortly after Trump told reporters in a press conference In the White House, he will soon send letters to countries with which commercial conversations are not going well, and will tell them what their rate is.

Canada is one of the largest commercial partners in the United States. The United States has imposed tariffs on most imports from Canada, and Canada has responded with tariffs on US exports to Canada.

Prime Minister Carney said that Canada “would continue to carry out these complex negotiations in the best interest of Canadians. It is a negotiation.”

Candace Laing, president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce of Canada, said in a statement: “The negotiations pass through peaks and valleys. With the deadlines, some last minute surprises must be expected.” He added: “The tone and tenor of the conversations have improved in recent months, and we hope to see that progress continues.”

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