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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
NEW YORK, June 27 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States will halt all trade talks with Canada over Ottawa’s plan to impose a digital services tax on American tech companies.
On his Truth Social page, the American leader wrote that Canada had just announced a digital services tax on American tech companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on the United States.
“Based on this outrageous tax, we are ending all trade discussions with Canada, effective immediately,” Trump said.
He said the United States would notify Canada within the next seven days of the amount of duties it would have to pay for doing business with the United States.
Canada is copying the actions of the European Union by introducing a tax on digital services, D. Trump noted.
The United States is trying to complete trade talks with a number of trading partners as the government’s July 9 deadline approaches.
However, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said on Thursday that Trump might push back the deadline. –0–