Canadian Prime Minister Carney says trade talks with US resume after Canada rescinded tech tax
TORONTO (AP) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that late trade talks continued on Sunday after canceling Canada’s taxation plan for US technology companies.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday. Trade negotiations with Canada On his plans to continue his tax on technology companies he calls “a direct and open attack on our country”.
The Canadian government, a trade agreement, said that Canada will be canceled ”. The tax will come into force on Monday.
Carney and Trump spoke on the phone on Sunday and Carney’s office said they agreed to continue negotiations.
Carney said in a statement, “Today’s announcement will support the start of the negotiations against 21 July 2025, which appeared at the G7 leaders Summit in Kananaskis.” He said.
Carney He visited Trump In May, it is polite but intact at the White House. Trump went to Canada G7 Summit Alberta, Carney, said that Canada and the United States have set a 30 -day deadline for trade talks.
Trump, in an article on a social media network last Friday, said that Canada depends on the plan to impose a digital service tax that is valid for Canada and foreign enterprises, which interacted the US with the online users in Canada.
Hit companies such as Digital Service Tax, Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb had a 3% tax on the income of Canadian users. He would apply backwards and leave US companies with an invoice of $ 2 billion at the end of the month.
Daniel Béland, a professor of political science at McGill University in Montreal, called Carney’s Retreat a “open victory for Trump.
“At some point, this movement may be necessary in the context of Canadian-US Trade Negotiations, but Prime Minister Carney has now allowed him to appoint President Trump and to continue these negotiations, which is a clear victory for both the White House and Big Tech.” He said.
He said Carney made President Trump vulnerable against his explosions.
“President Trump forced Prime Minister Carney to do what Big Teh wants.
Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne also spoke with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday.
“The cancellation of the digital service tax will allow the negotiations of a new economic and security relationship with the United States to make vital progress,” Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said. He said.
Trump’s announcement on Friday was last Swerve Trade war It has been launched in January since a second term. Progress with Canada was a role Coaster, who argued that the US President mocked the northern neighbor of the country and would be absorbed again and again. A US State.
Canada and the United States are discussing easier A series of upright tariffs imposed by Trump Goods from America’s neighbor.
Trump applied 50% tariff Steel and aluminum In addition to 25% tariffs in cars. In addition, although the 90 -day negotiation period has expired, it can increase the rates on July 9, it demands 10% tax for imports from most countries.
Although Canada and Mexico are faced with separate tariffs up to 25% under the auspices of Trump’s Fentanyl smuggling, some products are still protected within the scope of the 2020 US-Mexican-Canada Agreement signed in Trump’s first period.
