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President Trump of the United States criticized Canada for targeting major American IT companies with its newly introduced digital services tax, and announced that he would break off negotiations with Canada over tariff measures.

He also expressed his intention to impose new tariffs on Canada.

On the 27th, President Trump expressed dissatisfaction on his social media, stating that Canada imposes high tariffs on dairy products from abroad, and also criticized the digital services tax for targeting major American IT companies.

And he declared, For this outrageous tax system, we will immediately suspend all discussions regarding trade with Canada, and announced that new tariff measures against Canada would be notified within the next seven days.

According to American and Canadian media, the first payment deadline for Canada’s digital services tax, which came into effect last June, is the 30th of this month.

It is said that major American IT companies such as Alphabet, Googles parent company, and Meta will be subject to this, and that there is a possibility they will newly incur costs of several billion dollars.

The Trump administration has, in principle, imposed an additional 25% tariff on Canada, among other measures.

On the 16th of this month, Canadian Prime Minister Carney met with President Trump during the G7 Summit and agreed to work towards reaching an agreement within 30 days on trade issues such as tariffs.

Canadas Prime Minister Carney: We will continue complex negotiations Regarding President Trumps statement that he would end negotiations with Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Carney told reporters on the 27th, We will continue complex negotiations for the best interests of the Canadian people.

On the other hand, according to Canadas public broadcaster CBC, Prime Minister Carney did not answer the question of whether he was prepared to withdraw the digital services tax.