Trump Ends US-Canada Trade Talks Over Digital Services Tax
A brief news recap of President Trump's Truth Social post announcing the termination of all trade discussions with Canada over its new digital services tax on American tech companies. Useful for those tracking cross-border tech policy and trade tensions affecting the tech and privacy sectors.
Transcript
Well, I feel like I'm back in my top 40 radio days because the hits just keep on coming. President Trump now announcing the United States is terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately. He wrote on Truth Social, quote, we have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult country to trade with, has just announced that they are putting a digital services tax on our American technology companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our country. Based on this egregious tax, we are hereby terminating. DETERMINATING ALL DISCUSSIONS ON TRADE WITH CANADA EFFECTIVE WE WILL LET CANADA KNOW THE TARIFF THEY WILL BE PAYING TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN DAY PERIOD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.