The 25% tariff on most imported Canadian goods that President Trump’s plans to impose Tuesday has touched off a range of emotions along the world’s longest international border.
Businesses on Maine and New Hampshire’s coast have concerns about whether Canadians will return in 2025. Trump's spat with Canada isn't only reason.
Members of the commission, which has been around for decades, are seeking to build ties as the Trump administration embraces protectionism.
The Gulf of Maine, which touches three New England states and Canada, emerged as a test case for climate change about a decade ago because it is warming much faster than most of the world’s oceans. The gulf is home to some of the country’s most valuable seafood species and is critical to the American lobster industry.
The driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a home in the town of Sweden suffered life-threatening injuries. A supplemental budget in the Maine legislature to shore up a $118 million shortfall in Medicaid funding will not take effect immediately. The U.S. registered its first death from measles since 2015 this week, as a child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas. A person who was hospitalized with measles has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month. President Donald Trump said Monday that his tariffs on Canada and Mexico are starting next month, ending a monthlong suspension on the planned import taxes that could potentially hurt economic growth and worsen inflation. Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump's administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren't expected to save the government any money, the administration's own data shows.
The tariffs have touched off a range of emotions along the world’s longest international border, where residents and industries are closely intertwined. Ranchers in Canada rely
While experts say some manufacturing could shift back to the U.S., retaliatory tariffs could dry up the Canadian market for Maine timber. But many unknowns remain.
At midnight Tuesday, President Trump’s imposed tariffs took effect on Mexican, Canadian and Chinese imports. We talked to a local expert about what they might mean for Maine and its industries. A University of Maine Business Professor says with Canada’s subsidization of its lobster industry and some processing handled there;
A 10% tax on Canadian energy imports and a steeper 25% tax on all other goods from the country is expected to go into effect Tuesday. Goods from Mexico would also be hit with 25% tariffs. The move comes about a month after President Donald Trump postponed his initial tariff threats against the United States’ neighbors at the last minute.
There's been so much uncertainty with these tariffs about whether they were going to happen and when they were going to happen. Has that uncertainty already had an impact on the economy in Maine or across the country?
In the border town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, "Canada first" mixes with a fear that the cozy relations with Calais will change.
Three of Maine's four members of Congress signed a letter to the Trump administration warning against starting a 'tit-for-tat' trade war with Canada that will cause higher prices for heating fuel, gasoline,
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