{"id":1516,"date":"2025-06-28T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-ends-trade-talks-with-canada-over-a-digital-services-tax\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:00:16","slug":"trump-ends-trade-talks-with-canada-over-a-digital-services-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-ends-trade-talks-with-canada-over-a-digital-services-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ends trade talks with Canada over a digital services tax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump said the US is ending trade talks with Canada, effective immediately, over a tax on digital services that will impact American tech companies. He also pledged to announce further tariffs on Canada within the next week, adding in a Truth Social post<\/ins> that “they will be paying to do business with the United States of America.”<\/p>\n

Canada’s digital services tax (DST) is set to take effect on June 30, though it will be applied retroactively. According to The New York Times<\/ins><\/em>, US companies are preparing to pay around $2.7 billion to the Canadian government to cover a three percent tax on revenue they generated from users in the country. Companies including Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb are subject to the levy, as things stand.<\/p>\n

In his post on Friday, Trump called the DST “a direct and blatant attack on our country.” Amid trade talks with the US, Canada’s finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said this month that the country had no plans to hit the pause button on the DST<\/ins>. Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney previously said<\/ins> they aimed to reach a trade deal by around July 20.<\/p>\n

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Since taking office in January, Trump has been using tariffs as a negotiating tactic with other nations. The US reached a trade deal<\/ins> with China over rare earth minerals this week, and it is soon set to reimpose some of the levies that were put on hold in April for 90 days<\/ins>.<\/p>\n

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The DST has been a bone of contention between the US and Canada for years. The Biden administration formally challenged<\/ins> the levy last year under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.<\/p>\n

Other jurisdictions have considered or enacted a similar tax. It was reported in May that Germany is mulling a 10 percent levy<\/ins> on platforms such as Google and Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Donald Trump said the US is ending trade talks with Canada, effective immediately, over a tax on digital services that will impact American tech companies. He also pledged to announce further tariffs on Canada within the next week, adding in a Truth Social post that “they will be paying to do business with the…<\/p>\n

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