President Trump on Friday said he was cutting off trade talks with Canada and threatened to set a new tariff rate on the country's goods within the next week. Trump said the move was in response to Canada's move to implement a digital services tax on technology companies,

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to cancel his attendance at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in the Hague, a source with direct knowledge said on Monday.

Tensions escalated just days before Canada’s scheduled implementation of a 3 per cent digital services tax on large US tech firms such as Amazon, Meta, Google and Apple.