WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump today said the United States would terminate all trade discussions with Canada, “effective immediately,” over the country’s plan to begin collecting digital services taxes from U.S. technology giants.

President Donald Trump terminated trade talks with Canada on Friday and will be announcing a tariff on Canadian goods.

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump says he is “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” over Ottawa’s plans to push ahead with a digital services tax that takes effect at the end of the month. Trump made the comments in a post on his social media account this afternoon. More coming. The Canadian Press

President Donald Trump upended the outlook for trade policy again Friday when he said he was ending negotiations with Canada due to the country's adoption of a Digital Services Tax.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he did not speak Friday with Donald Trump before the U.S. president announced a sudden end to trade negotiations in response to Ottawa's plans to push ahead with a digital services tax at the end of the month.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has said he is cutting off trade talks with Canada "immediately" as the country looks to start enforcing a tax policy targeting big tech companies. The latest move, which he announced on social media, comes as the neighboring nations had been working to agree a trade deal by mid-July. Both countries have imposed tariffs on each other's goods after Trump sparked a trade war earlier this year and threatened to annex Canada using "economic force". On Friday, the US president said he was ending talks due to what he called an "egregious tax" on tech companies and added he would announce new tariffs on goods crossing the border within the next week. "We are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately," he wrote on social media. "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." In brief comments to reporters, Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested that talks…