As thousands of data centers have come online, an explosion in demand for advanced memory chips has tightened global supplies and sent prices for the components to unprecedented highs.
Canada has been vocal and active in pushing back against punitive tariffs, as well as Trump's repeated claimes he intends to make the country the "51st State."
This latest executive order on imports from China follows other recent U.S. restrictions on the imports of drones, humanoid robots and other tech products.