U.S. to restart trade negotiations with Canada immediately, White House says

Racy Rafique · CBC

· Posted: Jun 30, 2025 10:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The United States will restart commercialized negotiations with Canada immediately, aft Canada scrapped its integer services taxation targeting U.S. technology firms, White House economical advisor Kevin Hassett said on Monday.
 
"Absolutely," Hassett said connected Fox News erstwhile asked astir the talks restarting. U.S. President Donald Trump had asked the Canadians to take the taxation disconnected astatine the G7 gathering successful Canada, helium said.

"It's something that they've studied, present they've agreed to, and for sure, that means that we tin get backmost to the negotiations."

Trump primitively said Friday helium was ending each U.S. commercialized discussions with Canada due to the fact that of the integer services tax, which would person seen U.S. companies similar Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb wage 3 per cent connected revenues from Canadian users.

The policy, with taxation postulation acceptable to statesman Monday, would person applied retroactively, leaving U.S. companies with a $2-billion US measure owed astatine the extremity of the month.

Canada and the U.S. person been locked successful talks for months to get Trump to assistance his punishing tariffs connected Canadian goods, with the U.S. president and Prime Minister Mark Carney agreeing at the caller G7 acme to scope immoderate benignant of woody connected the commercialized quality wrong 30 days — by July 21.

The Prime Minister's Office confirmed to CBC News that Carney and Trump spoke connected the telephone sometime betwixt Friday and Sunday night, erstwhile Canada rescinded the tax.

Despite the move, Canada is inactive successful progressive discussions with G7 allies to present an planetary tax, with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne starring that work, the PMO said.

"President Trump has erstwhile again leveraged the powerfulness of the American economy, the champion and biggest successful the world, to present a triumph for American industries and workers," White House spokesperson Kush Desai said successful a connection to CBC News connected Monday.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick shared a connection connected societal media connected Monday greeting praising Canada's determination to scrap the tax. 

"Thank you Canada for removing your Digital Services Tax, which was intended to stifle American innovation and would person been a deal-breaker for immoderate commercialized woody with America," helium wrote connected X.