In October, Canada’s export dependency on the U.S. fell to 67.3%. Outside the pandemic, this is a record low since 1997, deviating sharply from the usual 75–78% range. Meanwhile, exports to the rest of the world jumped 15.6% to an all-time high.

New Brunswick kltchen cabinet manufacturer seeks to boost sales to Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Bermuda and Mexico in response to unpredictable U.S. #tariffs: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Multi-billion dollar data centre project chooses Canada over the USA: financialpost.com/technology/s...

Canadians aren't buying much U.S. bourbon and a Trump-backing state is feeling the pain. There are some great Canadian bourbon-like products from distilleries like Raging Crow (NS) and Okanagan Spirits (BC). www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

The Nova Scotia Liquor Board has put U.S. liquors back on the shelf, but is it supporting homegrown bourbon-like alternatives, like Raging Crow's "Can't Call it B**rbon?" www.ragingcrow.com @nsgov.bsky.social

Compared to the U.K. and France, Canadians are far more likely to report boycotting American products, services and travel: theconversation.com/canada-is-le... @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social

International visitation to the U.S. dropped again last month, making November the 7th straight month with a year-over-year decline. Visitation from overseas dropped 3.5% to 2.5 million for the month: skift.com/2025/12/11/i...

Overall, between February and October 2025, the number of return trips by Canadians to the U.S. declined by 21 per cent for air travel and by a staggering 33.5 per cent for land travel: www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

The drop in Canadian tourism to the United States in response to President Donald Trump's actions is hurting American businesses in several states, a new report by a congressional committee has found: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

Destination #Canada, the country’s tourism organization, estimates year-over-year total tourism revenue for the lucrative summer season of May to August increased by an unprecedented C$3.3 billion (6%): www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Microsoft is bullish on #Canada: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

The USA's descent into an Orwellian state presents HUGE opportunities for Canada, which should ramp up efforts to attract Europeans to conferences, for business opportunities, and for holidays: www.financialexpress.com/business/inv...

One of millions of examples: ‪@tltlc.bsky.social‬ has cancelled trips to Nashville, Arizona and Seattle, choosing to vacation in the Canadian Rockies, on Vancouver Island and along the East Coast of Canada instead.

U.S. international tourism spending is forecast to drop 3.2% in 2025, a $US5.7B loss. The U.S. Travel Association links the decline primarily to fewer Canadian visitors since President Trump's return and rhetoric: www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canada is looking to Western Europe and the Republic of Korea for major defence procurement initiatives. The USA is losing what used to be sure business for its firms, which have Donald Trump to "thank" for their declining sales prospects in Canada: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The Buy Canadian movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves: www.ctvnews.ca/business/art... @sidcavale.bsky.social @reuters

The number of Canadian residents who returned by car from the U.S. fell to 1.4 million in Oct., a 30.5% drop from the same period in 2024. It's the 10th straight month of lower volumes, beginning the month after U.S. President Trump was elected. Trump's trade war is proving costly to U.S. companies.

Minnesota liquor producer began production in Montréal today. Trump's trade war has forced Sour Puss to invest north of the border. USA's loss, Canada's gain: www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/com...

Thanks to renewable power expansion, fuel-importing countries saved more than $1.3tn between 2010 and 2023 that would otherwise have been spent on fossil fuels from overseas. Important contribution from @iea.org to current debates!

For the first time in 30 years, Canada is importing more vehicles from Mexico than from the U.S.

CBC News reviewed datasets on travel, trade, shopping and culture, and all of them paint a similar picture: Canadians are taking a big step back from the U.S.: www.cbc.ca/news/politic... @jptasker.bsky.social

California grape growers are facing big troubles, with many producers leaving fruit unharvested or abandoning their vineyards due to a sharp decline in demand (e.g., due to Canadian boycotts) & increasing economic pressures, according to an industry leader: english.news.cn/20251004/b12...

Three-fifths of Canadians are avoiding the purchase of American products. #Trump's policies are hurting U.S. businesses: globalnews.ca/news/1145005...

Statistics Canada reports that in July the number of Americans visiting Canada exceeded the number of Canadians visiting the US. This has only happened one other time in roughly the last 2 decades, if you exclude the COVID-19 pandemic outliers of Aug & Sep 2021: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

The # of Canadian visitors to the US continues to collapse, down 25.2% YTD. This includes a 37.0% drop in land arrivals in July alone. Trump's policies are costing America billion$ in tourist-related revenue: www.tourismeconomics.com/press/latest...

The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to #Canada dropped 62% during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ago, as American alcohol remains off the shelves in many provinces. ca.news.yahoo.com/company-behi...

Shipments of U.S. orange juice to Canada fell in June to their lowest level in more than two decades: www.freshplaza.com/north-americ...

Sales of U.S. spirits in Canada dropped 66.3% between March 5, when provinces announced they would stop carrying the products in retail stores, and the end of April, according to an analysis by Spirits Canada: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

More than half of Canadians are curtailing their travel to the USA: x.com/OJoelsen/sta...

Sales of Ontario wine have increased by over 60 per cent since the LCBO pulled American products off its shelves earlier this year, signalling a shift in buying habits among consumers in the province, the retailer says: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

China’s State Council has released its 2025 legislative work plan outlining key priorities for the year, including the introduction of new laws & regulations & revisions to existing legislation. Many measures could significantly impact foreign businesses: www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-...

5 months into the U.S.-Canada trade war & B.C. drivers are still travelling into Washington far less often than they used to. Southbound crossings at the 4 main points of entry near Metro Vancouver were down 42.6% in June compared with the same period last year: vancouversun.com/news/bc-wash...

Statistics Canada (StatCan) data show that in April, roughly C$3 million in U.S. wine entered the country, down 94 per cent from C$54 million for the same month in 2024: www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

A U.S. firm lost the chance at a C$34 million contract for steel pipes for the City of Calgary. A Mexican company got it instead. The reason? Canada's retaliatory tariffs compelled by the unfriendly unilateral action of the U.S. federal government: calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

The U.S. tourism sector will decline sharply in 2025, with over 230,000 job losses expected as international visitors, including Canadians, stay away. Trade policies, travel restrictions, and social concerns could cost the country US$12.5 billion in tourism revenue: www.linkedin.com/news/story/u...

Could Canada finally be diversifying its trade? In April, exports to the U.S. shrunk by 15.7%, a third consecutive monthly decline. Meanwhile, Canadian exports to the rest of the world rose 2.9% in April. Confronting #Trump's protectionist tariffs, Canadian exporters are looking elsewhere.

The USA is on track to lose US$12.5 bn in int'l travel spending this year, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. That represents a 22.5% decline from peak int'l travel spending in the USA in 2019. Canada is contributing to the hit to the U.S. travel & tourism sector.

Canadian businesses are axing travel to the USA, in some cases trips planned as far as 2027. Upcoming corporate events without a set destination could wind up in Canada, Mexico or elsewhere - rather than in the USA. Orlando, Chicago & Vegas among likely losers: www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2025...

Canadian & other foreign tourists are ditching the U.S. amid rising travel concerns and political fallout & new border rules. The trend could mean an annual loss of US$18 bn in int'l tourist spending, per travel analysts, threatening more than 140,000 jobs: www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

Montreal's Ahuntsic College says it has cancelled extracurricular and all other trips to the U.S. for the remainder of the school year amid unpredictable policies of the Trump administration. This decision will cost U.S. companies thousands of $ in 2025: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Foreign arrivals into major U.S. airports tumbled in mid-to-late March compared to last year, suggesting a sudden reluctance to visit the U.S. isn't a purely Canadian phenomenon and should sound alarm bells for the country's US$1 trillion-plus travel industry: www.axios.com/2025/04/04/f...

Chinese refiners are importing record amounts of Canadian crude after slashing purchases of United States #oil by roughly 90 per cent amid escalating trade tensions: financialpost.com/commodities/.... #petroleum #energy #tariffs

Adam Sacks, Prez of Tourism Economics, says regarding the decline of Canadian & other int'l visitors to the U.S.: "If the trend continues, we’re looking at a decline greater than 10% for the year,” which could amount to a projected loss in US$9 billion in travel and tourism revenue." -WaPo

The @washingtonpost.com reports that preliminary data from the Canadian government shows that as of March, the number of Canadians visiting the U.S. by car plunged by nearly 32% compared with the same time last year. The number of Canadian residents returning from the U.S. by air declined by 13.5%

Arrivals into the USA from Canada & other countries by plane are plunging due to consumer boycotts spurred by actions of the #Trump administration and fear generated by horror stories of how non-threatening visitors have been treated by border control officials. U.S. firms are losing billion$.

The “Buy Canadian” movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves: www.reuters.com/business/ret...

A private survey conducted by Zelman & Associates in February found that due to #Trump tariffs, builders expected U.S. home prices to increase by 4-6% – a jump that works out to between US$16,700 and US$25,000 for a US$419,000 home (the median home price in Q4 '24). h/t @politico.com

“Our conversation with the White House has been consistent from Day One – that #tariffs will increase the cost of housing because of the building materials we import from Canada, Mexico and China,” said Jim Tobin, president and CEO of the (U.S.) National Association of Home Builders.

Flight reservations from Canada to the United States have plummeted by more than 70% every month from March through the end of September, according to OAG, a travel data provider: edition.cnn.com/2025/03/30/b...