The annual International Homecoming Festival celebrates the connections between St. Stephen, N.B. and Calais, Maine.
While New Brunswick’s are expressing their concerns over threatened tariffs on Canadian exports, residents of Maine are also keeping an anxious eye on the border.
"It's going to be very difficult to rebuild some of that … I think that we will be able to do that, but it's going to take a lot of hard work, particularly on this side of the border."Kristin Vekasi, a University of Maine political scientist, says the relationship with Canada is one of the most important for the U.S., and it will take a lot of hard work to rebuild trust.
Amir Mousavian, a professor of supply chain management at Maine's University of New England, said all you need to do to get a good example of the negative impact tariffs will have is look at the energy market."So if there are 10 per cent tariffs on fuel cost, it's going to drive the prices for fuel across the state, which is going to have cascading effects for the rest of the industries.
He says the industry could be impacted both by Canadians not wanting to travel to the U.S., but also by families having less money to spend on vacations because of price increases caused by tariffs.
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