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From Alaska to Maine, communities that border Canada worry US tariffs come at a personal cost (apnews.com)

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The tariffs have touched off a range of emotions along the world’s longest international border, where residents and industries are closely intertwined. Ranchers in Canada rely on American companies for farm equipment, and export cattle and hogs to U.S. meat processors. U.S. consumers enjoy thousands of gallons of Canadian maple syrup each year. Canadian dogs and cats dine on U.S.-made pet food.

The trade dispute will have far-reaching spillover effects, from price increases and paperwork backlogs to longer wait times at the U.S.-Canada border for both people and products, said Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University.

“These industries on both sides are built up out of a cross-border relationship, and disruptions will play out on both sides,” Trautman said.

The Associated Press wanted to know what residents and businesses were thinking along the border that Reagan vowed would remain unburdened by an “invisible barrier of economic suspicion and fear.” Here’s what they said:

Skagway, Alaska-Whitehorse, Yukon
Point Roberts, Washington-Delta, British Columbia
Billings, Montana-Alberta
Detroit-Windsor, Ontario
Buffalo, New York-Ontario
Cutler, Maine-New Brunswick

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[–] adespoton 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don’t know about the rest, but kids in Point Roberts have to cross the border just to go to school. There’s also pretty much no way to get groceries or anything else without them crossing the border.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Have to cross twice, each way. So 4x a day. Once into Canada and then back to the US.

[–] Shadow 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They have a grocery store there. Other basic needs though, no. Not much medical care, dentists, etc.

[–] adespoton 4 points 23 hours ago

They have a grocery store there, but those groceries get trucked in… over the border.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

And I wonder how many of them voted for Trump. “It doesn’t matter until it affects me”, the Republican motto.

[–] cygnus 8 points 1 day ago

Every time I read an article like this I have to shake my head because they make Americans look like the dumbest people imaginable, absolutely incapable of understanding cause and effect.