00:00The White House says Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has caved to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump
00:06after agreeing to rescind a tax targeting major U.S. tech firms.
00:11White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said Carney had called Trump on Sunday night to confirm the reversal.
00:18Carney said the move was a part of a broader deal confirming that renewed trade talks with Washington resumed on Monday.
00:26Trump had labelled the tax a blatant attack and abruptly halted trade talks with Ottawa last Friday, threatening new tariffs in response.
00:35The now-scrapped digital services tax would have imposed a 3% charge on Canadian revenues,
00:41exceeding US$20 million from companies like Amazon, Meta, Google and Apple.
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