White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boasted that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney caved to President Donald Trump‘s pressure to end Canada’s digital services tax on U.S. tech companies. “It’s very simple.

Carney said the tax had been dropped as "part of a bigger negotiation" and that Canada-US trade talks had resumed.

Ottawa scrapped the tax, which had targeted mostly U.S. tech giants, hours before the first payments were due to be collected