B.C. exporters paying the price as U.S. trade war escalates

Trade tensions between Canada and the U.S. continue to escalate, deepening uncertainty for B.C. businesses that depend on cross-border trade.

Some B.C. business owners say they are being hit with the 50 per cent tariffs that the Trump administration imposed late last month on a range of Canadian goods.

Others told Business in Vancouver they started to have delays getting products across the border during the early days of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, before the current tariff spat with Canada erupted.

There is also the spectre that businesses could feel a pinch from counter-tariffs that Prime Minister Mark Carney levelled on a wide swath of American products

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