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U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.

"We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period," Trump said in a social media post.

He says he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax (DST), which requires web giants pay a special tax.

Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users — a policy enacted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau's government that the Parliamentary Budget Office projects will bring in billions of dollars in revenue.

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[-] intheformbelow@lemmy.world 4 points 29 minutes ago

I'm in favour of gradual weakening of the US leading to its ultimate dismantling. The sub-300 year experiment has clearly failed, so there's zero reason for the US to exist in its current form.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 26 minutes ago

Yeah I kind of believe that NA would work better as a bunch of smaller countries in an agreement similar to the EU. I say that as a Canadian who’s politics aren’t as much a dumpster fire too

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 50 minutes ago

That's definitely going to help him make a deal.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 4 points 43 minutes ago

Lol Donald announced that he's shutting up? Canada wins

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 30 minutes ago
[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 27 minutes ago

He’s just trying to get our CDN back to an equal level with USD :)

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Thursday, Canada signs huge rare earth mineral mining deal with Iceland, humiliating Trump.

Friday, Trump throws a tantrum.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

ART OF THE DEAL

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago
[-] SoupBrick@pawb.social 16 points 2 hours ago

Conspiracy Time!

I wonder if they are trying to flood the 'Canada' SEO because of this recent event:

https://globalnews.ca/news/11262681/canadian-dead-ice-custody-florida/

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago

The deceased lived in the US for their entire adult life. It's not like a tourist was snatched and died in custody. First, everybody should be outraged about this type of treatment happening to a human being, but there's no reason for Canada to have anything more to do with this.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 28 points 3 hours ago

Canada should back out of the USMCA and stop respecting US IP

[-] MrDrProfJimmy@lemm.ee 9 points 2 hours ago

Some of us never started

[-] ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 hours ago

It would be highly amusing for Canada to start making Star Wars films without Disney's approval, along with a little "Come get me fuckers".

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 5 points 2 hours ago

If you don't mind losing leg so the other guy gets cancer. Canada needs more time to detach first.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 62 points 4 hours ago

We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying

...that's... not how this works...

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 34 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

After all this time he still has no idea how tariffs work.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 points 3 hours ago

It works like that when you assume the other country will desperately lower their export prices and eat the difference so in the end it's still sold at the same price in the country raising the tariffs. In practice the greedy capitalists raise prices in the shops at the mere mention of the concept of tariffs, even when the product is produced locally.

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 50 points 4 hours ago
[-] ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago

Canada geese are my favorite bird. I see them by the lake all the time. They are perfectly well-behaved, until you deliberately try to piss them off.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 64 points 5 hours ago

Canada needs to start cashing in their US Bonds. Let's watch the US economy start to crash.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 hours ago

I feel like that’s probably our nuclear option and we’re holding out for now since it’s likely Trump chickens out again

[-] regedit@feddit.online 9 points 4 hours ago

I hope not. Please do it. tRump and his shit-sucking base only give a shit when the leopard is dousing them and theirs in hot sauce. If crashing and burning this fucker and our country is what it takes to end him and them, don't wait! Do it slowly, like someone shredding important documents.

Bonus points if they or anyone does it each time this regime tries to lie or bury that pressure point. Rich people back this fuck-squad because they care about two things: their money and their lives. Threaten one and/or the other until they abandon him!

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm telling ya! ICE is running out of money, and tariffs are collected by the DHS instead of the IRS. I'm betting tariffs are going under the table to fund it

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 160 points 6 hours ago

"We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying..."

How has he still not learned that it is Americans and American businesses that pay the tariffs.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 116 points 6 hours ago

He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 38 points 5 hours ago

He also knows that if he just repeats things people will believe them, even in spite of evidence they can see, feel and touch.

[-] Eril@feddit.org 7 points 3 hours ago

What a stupid timeline, in which the above is true🙄

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

That could be true, but he is dumb enough to not understand. Malice or ignorance are always possibilities.

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.snekerpimp.space 22 points 4 hours ago
[-] D_C@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Too weak...

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 98 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

How dare the Canadian government get American companies to pay their fair share for operating here [in Canada]

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 70 points 6 hours ago

How dare they charge *checks notes* the same thing Visa and Mastercard charge everyone in our entire country for everything.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

His words have been proven to mean nothing. He just speaks without any thought, senile old man.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Bring in BYD ....

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 hours ago

This is the equivalent of that obnoxious kid in the neighbourhood saying they're taking their basketball home and no one can play basketball any more .... then after he leaves, someone else brings another basketball anyway.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 36 points 6 hours ago

Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users

Good.

[-] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

It should be a lot higher, honestly. Encourage building Canadian services and using European services instead of relying on predatory American monopolies.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago

3% of revenue is a substantial number.

However, even better:

The tax, which will take effect on 30 June and be applied retroactively from 2022, will impact both domestic and international companies, meaning American giants Amazon, Google, Meta, Airbnb and Uber will have to start payments from Monday.

Source

[-] Exec@pawb.social 2 points 3 hours ago

hah, imagine companies asking customers for taxes back from 2022

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

You know this is not how it works, yes?

[-] Exec@pawb.social 2 points 3 hours ago

I mean it doesn't stop companies trying to comply with the law the worst way possible

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It is a corporation tax, not the sales tax.

They are using the turnover to estimate tax liability because taxing profits achieved in a single country by digital multinationals is bordering on impossible (and too easy to avoid).

[-] kubica@fedia.io 25 points 6 hours ago

Reminds me of a joke. The person that says it can quit smoking anytime they want, because in fact, they do it multiple times a day.

[-] goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago

He's just pump and dumping the stock market again now that there's no Iran to distract us

[-] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

Snip snap snip snap snip snap

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

Is this the country version of DARVO? We killed one of their citizens in an ICE concentration camp, so now instead of apologizing we're lashing out at them? Cool cool cool

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago

"We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven-day period,"

...proceeds to bomb Canada tomorrow.

[-] WarmSoda@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

Might as well. ICE killed a Canadian citizen.

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