Canada-U.S. trade tensions are impacting Ontario farmers by creating market uncertainty, raising equipment costs, and disrupting cross-border agricultural supply chains. Following failed trade talks, the U.S. imposed tariffs of up to 50 per cent on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods, including dairy, alcohol, cut flowers and honey.
The U.S. tariffs came into effect last month. In response, Canada implemented a counter-tariffs on some products on September 8.
“I think the biggest thing that’s impacting farmers across Ontario in Canada is just overall rising costs of all the goods and the inputs that we use in our businesses,” said Drew Spoelstra, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA).
