Canadians, American business owner react to Trump tariffs

(5 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada - 4 March 2025
1. Various of Real Canadian Superstore highlighting Canada products, emptied shelf of American wine

ASSOCIATED PRESS
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada - 4 March 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Eitel, British Columbia resident:
"I usually buy my gas for my truck in Blaine, Washington. I don't do that anymore, and I don't usually shop in the States unless maybe if I'm, you know, if I went down to Seattle to watch the Blue Jays or something, I might. But I won't be going. I won't be doing that again either by going to Seattle."
3. Various of White Rock waterfront
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Eitel, British Columbia resident:
"Yeah, Why should I be helping the U.S. economy when they're doing all these bad things to us?"

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blaine, Washington, U.S. - 4 March 2025
5. Various of border crossing

ASSOCIATED PRESS
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada - 4 March 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Eitel, British Columbia resident:
"Things are not good. You know, there's this talk of the 51st state, which really doesn't do anything for our relations and also the tariffs are going to - everybody's going to have to pay more money for that."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blaine, Washington, U.S. - 4 March 2025
7. Various of border crossing

ASSOCIATED PRESS
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada - 4 March 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tessa Bohn, British Columbia resident:
"I just I mean, I as a Canadian, I don't know if this is the popular opinion, but as an individual, I just hope that Americans know that as an individual American, I like I have no ill will towards you. I do get heartbroken by what's happening in your government and I really hope that things change."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blaine, Washington, U.S. - 4 March 2025
9. Various of mailbox business
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelle Hagen, owner of Hagen's of Blaine shipping:
"It's hard to say what's going to happen, but we've had customers tell us that a few customers wanted to close their accounts, few customers said that they may not see us again anytime soon, and then other customers have said they're canceling their trips to the US. So we know. Things are going to slow down."
11. Various general views of Blaine
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelle Hagen, owner of Hagen's of Blaine shipping:
"Yeah, it's just the last five years have been very challenging and it continues to be a challenge. We don't know what's to come. We just got to take one day at a time and hope for the best. And hopefully this is a short lived problem. Covid was a long lived problem."
13. Wide of Blaine street

STORYLINE:
A drop in Canadian travelers to border town, American wine off a Canadian supermarket and uncertainty of what's going to happen are some of the immediate impacts echoing throughout the British Columbia and Washington state border as President Donald Trump's tariffs take effect.

In White Rock, British Columbia, local resident Ted Eitel said he has stopped traveling to the U.S. for errands, canceled a camping trip and is not considering traveling to see the Blue Jays baseball team in Seattle.

"Why should I be helping the U.S. economy when they're doing all these bad things to us?" he said.

Trump’s 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, along with a heightened 20% levy on Chinese goods. In response, all three countries announced retaliatory measures.



Hagen added that it's clear there are less Canadian travelers passing through the town since tensions rose.

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