Trade War coming? “Ambassador Tai expressed concern about Canada’s proposed digital service tax and pending legislation in the Canadian Parliament"

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America understands that Bill C-11 will probably extract a billion or more a year from U.S companies. The raising of this issue has occurred numerous times before and I suspect it could lead to the U.S going after Canadian industries such as EV Batteries manufactured in Canada by S Korean and Belgium companies for instance.

Readout of Ambassador Katherine Tai's Meeting with Canada's Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business, and Economic Development, Mary Ng

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Readout of Ambassador Katherine Tai's Meeting with Canada's Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business, and Economic Development, Mary Ng​

Ambassador Tai stressed the importance of Canada fully meeting its USMCA commitments, including its allocation of dairy tariff-rate quotas and home-shopping. Additionally, Ambassador Tai expressed concern about Canada’s proposed digital service tax and pending legislation in the Canadian Parliament that could impact digital streaming services. Ambassador Tai also reiterated that ensuring that American softwood lumber producers are able to compete on a level playing field against the harmful effects of unfairly subsidized and dumped imports is an important priority for the United States. The two agreed to continue to collaborate on addressing these and other issues.

Ambassador Tai and Minister Ng agreed to stay in regular communication and directed their deputies to report to them regularly on these issues.​