As the federal government’s trade war ramps up, two trading partners on opposite sides of the Maine/Canada border decided the best approach was to split the additional cost of tariffs on their respective imports.
“They’re splitting the additional costs” related to the tariffs, said Deb Neuman, president of the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce, who was speaking about a nursery business that’s a member of the chamber and a business in Canada where the nursery sources much of its stock.
Neuman spoke Tuesday at a virtual town hall on “Trade Relationships, Tourism and the Impact of Uncertainty,” presented by the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce, Saint John Region Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce for Greater Moncton and the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce to discuss tariffs and other policy decisions affecting cross-border relationships, businesses and economies.