{"id":145947,"date":"2025-09-15T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145947\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:34:09","slug":"tariffs-and-the-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145947\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs and the local economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Executive Director of the Quinte Economic Development Commission Chris King. (Photo: Quinte News)<\/p>\n

The Trump trade war with much of the world continues and the federal government continues to try and reach a suitable settlement with the U.S.<\/p>\n

Locally the Executive Director of the Quinte Economic Development Commission Chris King says manufacturers have been affected by tariffs, especially those involved with steel and aluminum.<\/p>\n

However, King says there\u2019s been positive news surrounding tariffs as well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were talking to a company just yesterday who is looking at repatriating some operations in the states and bringing them back to service the Canadian market.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not a cut-and-dried situation but it is causing hardship.\u00a0 It\u2019s the uncertainty and lack of clarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

And due to the tariff issues, the provincial government has set aside a significant pot of money in a Tariff-Impacted Communities program.<\/p>\n

And the Quinte Economic Development Commission is applying for funding from the program.<\/p>\n

King says the region ranked high in a national survey on tariff issues done by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

King says any funding from the program will be used to help local manufacturers find new markets and supply chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Executive Director of the Quinte Economic Development Commission Chris King. (Photo: Quinte News) The Trump trade war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3735,3736,45,49,48,46,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,3732],"class_list":["post-145947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bancroft","tag-brighton","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}