Breweries and maple syrup producer among Vermont businesses hit by Trump's tariffs on Canada

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1. ....Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of good

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........Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. In Vermont, trade with Canada accounted for more than a third of the state’s exports and two-thirds of its imports last year. According to Welch, one in four of the state’s businesses rely on trade with Canada, and they cannot afford to absorb a 25% hike on imports.
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“Everybody knows, except apparently President Trump, that the people who pay the tariffs are the people who buy the products,” Welch said in a Senate floor speech last week.“This is really, really stupid. This is going to hurt Vermont.”

Bibeau urged the American participants to pressure Trump to reverse course.

“This is not the right thing to do, not for your economy and not for ours either,” she said. “And I think we have to keep working together and to make the demonstration that it’s harming our two countries and our people.”