Maine-Canada border town businesses hurting thanks to tariffs on $6B trade relationship, bracing for it to 'get worse'

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The 25% import taxation connected Canadian goods, on with a 10% taxation connected vigor imports, could person important ripple effects successful Maine, which traded astir $6 cardinal with its bluish neighbour past year.

"Prices are already high, truthful it's conscionable going to get worse," McGary said.

McGary noted that the rising costs volition marque it harder to banal the accustomed magnitude of materials connected shelves — and volition thrust up prices for customers hoping to commencement caller projects oregon decorativeness repairs.

"Contractors are going to person to rise their prices," McGary said.

"Building the mean location is going to outgo more."

Building supplies aren’t the lone items being impacted by the tariffs.

Mitch Holmes, proprietor of Aroostook Auto Tech, has already noticed terms hikes from past month's projected tariff increase, from 10% to 25%, connected Canadian aluminum. With the caller higher tariff complaint present successful place, helium anticipates adjacent higher costs for car parts successful the coming months.

"A batch of the undercarriage, a batch of your suspension components, motor blocks, cylinder heads — I'm seeing bottom-line invoice prices that I've ne'er seen before," Holmes said.

Houlton’s vigor comes from New Brunswick Power, and locals are bracing for higher inferior bills arsenic a result.

"We conscionable changed implicit our transmission lines, and everything was going smoothly, but we're going to spot those rates spell up now,” Jane Torres, manager of the Greater Houlton Chamber of Commerce, told News Center Maine.

Owner of Chadwick Florist and Greenhouses Tammy Malvie noted that angiosperm prices person jumped 25%, which could pb to a driblet successful sales.

"We're anticipating that outpouring income volition beryllium down significantly," Malvie said.

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