Over the weekend, Donald Trump claimed the tax was a "direct and blatant attack" on US tech companies and terminated the trade talks while threatening to impose a new tariff rate on Canadian goods by the 4th of July.

The United States will resume trade negotiations with Canada immediately after Ottawa scrapped its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday.

Canada said it would rescind a digital-services tax in a bid to salvage trade discussions with the U.S. after President Trump paused talks on Friday.Canada’s finance department was set to collect billions of dollars from U.