'Half my business will be gone' - Firms in Canada and US fear trade war

Half my business will be gone - Firms in Canada and US fear trade war While tariffs could bring changes for Paloma Clothing, various American companies are confronting the same conflict they have faced since Trump returned to office and began imposing his levies. Bill Easton, owner of Terre Rouge Wines in Plymouth, California, has been unable to ship his wine north to Canada for the past year and a half due to a boycott of U.S. alcohol. He is currently paying $2,400 a period to store that wine in a warehouse, hoping he will one day be able to send it to the Canadian markets he serves. "The wine has just gotten better in the warehouse, but I can't expect my lawsuit in Canada to pay that other outgo that I've assumed implicit the past year and a half as portion of the price, if I was capable to merchantability it tomorrow," Easton told the BBC. Meanwhile, American businesses located near the Canadian border are feeling the impact. The number of Canadian customers crossing the border to shop at Heather Seevers' Northwest Yarns and Mercantile in Bellingham, Washington, has fallen by roughly 20% since the tariff dispute began about a year ago. What has further irritated Canadians is Trump's suggestion that Canada could become the 51st U.S. state. The shop sits 25 minutes from the U.S.-Canada border. Since the "war" began, Seevers said she has received emails from Canadian customers stating they could not patronize her business "due to anti-Canadian rhetoric." "We wholly understood that," she said. The combined effect of fewer visitors and higher prices has left the store seeking assistance from the community through a fundraising initiative aimed at staying afloat. And then, over the weekend, when the latest tariffs took effect, Seevers encountered another obstacle. "It's going to get worse earlier it gets better," she said. "It's going to instrumentality years and years and years to get a narration backmost with Canada, and I deliberation these caller tariffs are digging america deeper into a hole." Additional reporting from Nadine Yousif.