The president and chief executive officer of a Saskatoon-based mining equipment manufacturer says his company spent the last two weeks buying more American steel used in its products as Canada’s counter-tariffs kick in Tuesday.
“To make sure we had enough in stock to be able to ride out this kind of effect for as long a period as we could,” says Scott Bahr of Bit Service Company.
Canada’s counter-tariffs are in response to recent trade war escalations by U.S. President Donald Trump and equal $27.6 billion in imports from the U.S. across a variety of sectors, including steel and dairy, as well as electronics.
Bahr says his company is more…
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