The State Department claimed it had struck a deal that would save the U.S. government “millions of dollars a year.”

President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday denied a claim by the Trump administration that this Central American country had agreed to eliminate tolls for U.S. government ships using the Panama Canal, in an apparent setback to U.

The Panama Canal Authority put out its own terse statement saying it had “not made any adjustments” to the fees.