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Reuters
Published
February 13, 2025
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he planned to impose tariffs on Canada and France on his digital services taxes on American technology giants, which has been a long -standing irritant.
Canada, who seeks to address the challenge of taxing digital giants such as Google Parent Alphabet and Amazon.com who can reserve their profits in low -tax countries, began to impose the tax in June last year.
Trump commissioned his economy team on Thursday by designing a plan to impose reciprocal tariffs on all countries that raised tariffs for US imports.
An informative sheet of the White House, which indicates that “only US companies should be allowed Americans.
“In general, these unrecognized taxes cost the companies of the United States more than $ 2 billion per year. He gave no more details.
Last year, under the administration of anterior Biden, Washington requested commercial dispute settlement consultations with Canada on the tax, describing it as discriminatory.
The office of the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was not immediately available to comment.
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