Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the late trade talks with America have resumed after Canada withdrew its plan to go Tax of American Technology.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump said on Friday that he was stopping Business negotiations with Canada On his plans to continue his tariffs on technology organizations, which he called “direct and open attack on our country.”
The Canadian government said “in anticipation” of the business “will save” digital tariffs. Taxes were imposed on Monday.
Carney and Trump spoke on the phone on Sunday, and the Carney office said they agreed to start negotiations.
“Today's announcement will help resume negotiations on July 21, 2025, a time schedule started at a summit of G7 leaders in Kananaskis,” Carney said in a statement.
Carney He visited Trump In May at the White White House, where he was respectful but consistent. Trump traveled to Canada for G7 Conference In Alberta, where Carney said that Canada and America had set a 30 -day deadline for business negotiations.
Trump, in a post on his social media network last Friday, said Canada had notified America that it was holding its plan to impose a digital service tax, which is used for Canadian and foreign businesses that partners with users in Canada.
Dijitic service tariffs were based on companies that were mounted along with Amazon. Google. MetaUber and Airbnb and a 3% tariff on revenue from Canadian users. It would have been used again, leaving American companies with a $ 2 billion US bill from the end of the month.
Daniel Béland, a professor of political science at McGill University in Montreal, called the return of Carney to be a “open victory” to Trump.
“At some point this move may be important in the context of the Canadian -American trade negotiations but Prime Minister Carney has taken steps to please President Trump and make him agree to start this negotiation, which is a clear victory for the White House and major technology,” Béland said.
He said it was causing Carney to appear in danger of President Trump's cancellation.
“President Trump forced PM Carney to do what Tech Big wanted. The American Technology Executive will be very happy with these results,” Béland said.
Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne also spoke to American Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday.
“Saving digital service tax will allow negotiations for new economic and safety relations with American to make important progress,” Canadian finance minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement.
Trump's announcement on Friday was the latest Business War He has been launched since taking office for the second term in January. Development with Canada has been a roller coaster, starting with the president of the northwashing the nation's neighborhood and suggested it would be repeatedly absorbed as State of America.
Canada and America have been discussing simplifying A series of elevation tariffs set on the product from the American neighborhood.
Trump has imposed a 50% tariff Iron and aluminum and 25% tariffs on autos. He is also leaving 10% tariffs on imports from many countries, although he could increase the rates on July 9, after the 90 -day period of negotiations he could end.
Canada and Mexico face a different tariff of about 25% that Trump set under the goals of fentanyl blocking, although other products are still protected under the 2020-MExico-Canada agreement signed during Trump's first time.