Google Webmaster tools and geotargeting at TLD and Folder levels

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Hoping you can help us with this question:

We are one Canada’s leading websites with a PR8. For privacy's sake, let's call our main URL www.OurMainWebsite.com

As we are expanding globally, we are planning to build a web site to service the US market but want to keep the domain above as is from branding perspective.

Questions:

Can we keep: www.OurMainWebsite.com as the main Canada site and create a www.OurMainWebsite.com/US as the US site?
Can those 2 URL's be geotargetted as per above, and wouldn't the fact that US is a subfolder of the main TLD through things off? can I target a TLD to one country and a subfolder under the TLD to abother?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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