{"id":235447,"date":"2025-10-23T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235447\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:24:08","slug":"some-doing-well-others-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235447\/","title":{"rendered":"Some doing well, others not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chris-king-brad-little.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Some doing well, others not so much\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">QEDC CEO Chris King (left) speaks with Board Chair Brad Little October 23 2025. (Photo: Quinte News)<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing trade war launched by U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs is having a definite effect on local manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of the Quinte Economic Development Commission Chris King tells Quinte News reaction to the tariffs has been \u201cmixed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers that continue to do well tend to be in food processing and other industries not involved with the steel, aluminum, and automotive industries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the QEDC is waiting for word on funding from the provincial Tariff-Impacted Communities Fund that it hopes to use to provide local manufacturers with trade diversification support, more supply-chain connections, more investment in the defence industry, and supports to increase foreign and technology investments.<\/p>\n<p>QEDC\u2019s application was for hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The Quinte region was deemed the 11th hardest hit area in the country by tariffs in a recent report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; QEDC CEO Chris King (left) speaks with Board Chair Brad Little October 23 2025. (Photo: Quinte News)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235448,"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-235447","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\/235447","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=235447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}