“This is very simple,” said Caroline Levit, press secretary of the US President, at her daily press conference.
She added that Trump “knows how to negotiate” and “each country on this planet should establish good trade relations with the United States.”
“For Canada, it was incorrect to introduce this tax, which causes damage to technological companies in the United States,” Levitt said.
Later, on Sunday, Canada announced that she would cancel the tax that affects American technological companies and said that commercial negotiations with Washington would resume.
The tax on digital services that was approved last year will lead to American companies, such as Alphabet and Amazon, to pay billions of dollars in Canada by Monday.
But Trump, who uses the economic force of the United States as a weapon in the form of customs duties, suddenly announced on Friday that he completed trade negotiations with Canada in response to the introduction of this tax.
Then he resumed his speech about his desire to become Canada, is an American state, an offer that previously led to tense relations between the two countries.
Trump told the Sunday morning futures on Fox News, “Canada should be the fifty first mandate, right? This is true, because it completely depends on the United States. As for us, we are not dependent on Canada. ”
The crisis broke out of the tax on technological companies, despite the improvement of relations between Trump and Carni.
On May 6, the Canadian leader visited the White House and held a friendly meeting with Trump in the Oval office.
They again met at a group of seven at the summit at the beginning of this month in Canada, where the leaders called on Trump to abandon his trade war.
Source: AFP
