The president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to break this Friday (27.2025) trade negotiations with Canada, after reproaching that country his intention to tax digital services to US technological.
“We have just been informed that Canada, a country with which it is very difficult to commit, including the fact that it has charged our farmers tariffs of up to 400% for years about dairy products, has just announced that it will tax digital services to our technological companies, which is a direct and flagrant attack on our country,” he said on his Truth Social Platform.
Due to the tax, the United States terminates “all commercial discussions with Canada with immediate effect,” he said.
“In the next seven days we will communicate to Canada the tariff that will pay to do business with the United States,” said Trump, who reproached that country being copying to the European Union (EU) the imposition of that tariff on technological ones.
Canadian finance minister François-Philippe Champagne warned last week that the digital tax is still in force in Canada and that the first payment, which affects among others large US multinationals as a goal, has to be carried out next Monday, June 30.
The tax, which will be applied retroactively since 2022, is 3% of income above 20 million dollars that companies obtain from digital services from Canadian residents.
RR (EFE/AP)
