Trump ends trade talks with Canada over a digital services tax

President Donald Trump said that the United States has completed trade talks with Canada, and it is effective on a tax about digital services that will immediately affect American technological companies. He will also announce further tariffs in Canada during the next week and added a “They will pay for the United States to work with.”

Although Canadian Digital Services Tax (DST) does not enter into force on June 30, it will be retroactive. According to US companies are preparing to pay about $ 2.7 billion to pay for taxes, the Canadian government, the number of users in the country. Companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb, are subject to Levil for the stopping work.

In his post on Friday, Trump DST called “a direct and open attack on our country.” The United States has been reported to be the country this month among the Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne . Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney before They aimed to reach the trade agreement on July 20.

After starting the office in January, Trump uses tariffs to other national talk tactics. USA This week is in rare land minerals with China and this soon began to review some of the collections .

DST has been a controversy between the years and Canada for years. Biden’s leadership Levy last year in the US-Mexican-Canadian Agreement.

Other jurisdictions reviewed or applied similar taxes. It was reported to be Germany in May On platforms like Google and Facebook.