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Senator Peter Welch, D-VT., Organized its last in a series of round tables with small businesses in the state of Green Mountain, which all believe that the Trump administration’s pricing actions will directly harm their operations and damage the key tourism industry.
“These prices are a self-inflicted injury,” Welch said on Monday, who also co-pacarraine a bipartite bill to repeal them, at Fox News Digital.
“And they already increase the prices of companies, farmers and families of workers across rural America. Everyone will be affected by President Trump’s trade war – whatever your political point of view or where you live.”
The latter seemed to be the tenor At Welch Last round table in Stowe, near the Quebec border.
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An image divided from a skier, on the left, and the senator Peter Welch, on the right, who directs several meetings with dozens of companies concerned with the tourist losses of New England – including snow sports – prices. (AP / Getty / Getty Images)
“I think I speak for all of us when I say that we do not know how they will affect us,” said Jen Kimmich, who directs Alchemist Brewery.
“What we know is that These prices occur. We know that prices will increase, but we don’t know how much. “”
Kimmich shared an example of how the brewery has intertwined with global manufacture.
Its aluminum is produced in the United States, but the manufacturer supplies in recycled metal from Brazil – metal which then passes through Canada to be transformed into leaves before crossing the Vermont.
Alchemist increased its prices by 5% and absorbed a blow by more than 10%, Kimmich told Welch.
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The specialized malt of his brewery, she said, is exempt at the moment because it is a food product of the United Kingdom.
The brewery, like the other companies represented collectively, said that the sudden decrease in visitors throughout the North border has harmed the tourism industry as well as stores where Canadians could regularly buy in Vermont.
“At each level, these prices have no economic sense,” she said. “The prices are unfair, and they are already creating a huge uncertainty. I work to help Vermont maintain the strength of its small businesses.”
Christa Bowdish, owner of the old Stagecoach Inn, said in a statement that 95% of her business was made via tourism and the rest of the inhabitants.
“From this 95%, generally 15% are Canadian. We were all delighted to have a banner ski season and it was good, but it was not incredible,” she said, adding that while the January figures were in place, skiing in February was down and the trend continued.
President Donald Trump has established a pricing program. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
At the same time, Bowdish said web traffic from Canada has dropped, what it suspects is linked to the tariff situation.
Bowdish also shared with Welch a letter from a Canadian tourist who canceled his journey due to American political rhetoric towards Canada.
“These are lasting damage to a relationship and emotional damage take time to heal. Although people do not visit Vermont, they will find new places to visit, by making new memories, by building new family traditions, and we will not take all this,” the innkeeper told Welch.
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The owner of Power Play Sports, Caleb Magoon, added: “The big challenge for me will be problems of supply chain. In my two stores, because we are general stores of sports items, I work with more than 100 sellers who make products literally around the world – from Dubai, to China, to the road to Waterbury.”
Meanwhile, representatives of ski and snow sports companies expressed their uncertainty about how the prices would affect them – because many do not open their doors for the year before November.
Fox News Digital contacted The White House For a response to the concerns of the senator and business owners.
