Tariffs on Canada Vote
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. Following the Supreme Court ruling that the President lacks authority to impose sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, we now wait to see what happens to those invalidated levies.
In particular, U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse supports removing tariffs on Canada, a major trading partners that we share a border with …
NEWHOUSE … “Certainly, the state of Washington and Canada, British Columbia for sure, but other provinces as well, our economies are very closely intertwined.”
In a recently passed House vote, Newhouse voted for removing tariffs on Canada …
NEWHOUSE … “I thought that this was a good show of support for continuing to increase our trading relationship, improve our trading relationship with and try to bring down the cost of inputs for farmers across the state.”
And, Newhouse says there are other reasons we should support our neighbors to the north …
NEWHOUSE … “Besides the agricultural end of it, there’s, in my Congressional district alone, I believe there’s over 40 Canadian-owned businesses that employ upwards of 750 employees, American, Washington state residents. So, we truly do have an intertwined economy as we depend on each other.”
Tariffs were placed on Canada in January of last year as part of an executive order to end the fentanyl crisis, but
Newhouse says most of the illicit drugs come through our southern border.
