The United States will resume trade negotiations with Canada immediately after Ottawa scrapped its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday, Reuters reports.
“Absolutely,” Hassett said on Fox News Channel when asked about the talks restarting.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday evening to tell him the tax was being dropped, calling it a big victory for U.S. tech companies.
“Very simple. Prime Minister Carney in Canada caved to President Trump and the United States of America,” she said, crediting Trump’s hard-line negotiating style for the shift.
“President Trump knows … that every country on the planet needs to have good trade relationships with the United States, and it was a mistake for Canada to vow to implement that tax that would have hurt our tech companies here in the United States,” she said.
Trump had asked Canada to drop the tax at a G7 meeting in Canada earlier in June, Hassett said. “It’s something that they’ve studied, now they’ve agreed to, and for sure, that means that we can get back to the negotiations.”
Canada halted its plans to begin collecting a new digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms just hours before this was due to start on Monday in a bid to advance stalled trade negotiations with the U.S.
Canada’s finance ministry said late on Sunday that Carney and Trump would resume trade negotiations in order to agree on a deal by July 21.
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