Potential tariffs could impact annual Washington imports of $7 billion from BC

By Frank Catalano
The Cascadia Daily News
January 6, 2025
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada, Canada West, United States

WASHINGTON — If your business relies on products coming across the border from Canada—what might proposed U.S. tariffs on imported goods mean to you? The answer, for now, is an imprecise “it depends”: on which products might have tariffs levied on them, how much the tariffs are, and if the tariffs even stick in light of discussions between U.S. and Canadian leaders and existing trade agreements between the two countries. …One certainty is a change in tariffs would have an impact on businesses and, downstream, consumers. Because a lot of goods move between British Columbia and Washington, perhaps most tangibly seafood heading north, lumber coming south and petroleum sloshing in both directions. …A new report found Washington state imported more than $7 billion in goods from British Columbia in 2023, and exported more than $5 billion to the province. …Canada is Washington state’s largest partner for imports.

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