It's like a ghost town — that's how the owner of the Emerson Duty Free shop at the Manitoba-United States border describes the highway leading to the crossing once new tariffs kicked in.

Amid ongoing tariff talks between Canada and the United States, many Winnipeggers are taking actions of their own like canceling trips and focusing on shopping local.

On Feb. 3, the U.S. Travel Association estimated a 10% reduction in Canadian tourist visits would result in $2.1 billion in lost travel spending and 14,000 job losses nationwide following the Trump administration’s first salvo on tariffs.

The U.S. and Canada have had a friendly trading relationship for decades. Canada has been the largest export market for 36 states, including North Dakota. But now that tariffs are kicking in, The North Dakota Corn Utilization Council says corn farmers are becoming concerned over the rising costs and they hope for negotiations to be continued.

CHICAGO (KFGO/KVRR) — Former North Dakota U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp calls the tariffs that went into effect Tuesday “a solution in search of a problem.”

Trump has pushed pause on proposed tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, but that could end in early March.

The Trump tariffs and retaliatory tariffs will likely cause financial pain for American farmers. Farmers such as Sherlock get it, but other producers don’t.

Farmers are bracing for heavy impacts from those tariffs. Canada, Mexico, and China are three of the largest buyers of American crops, and the tariffs Trump has placed on imports from those countries have caused them to respond with retaliatory levies.

U.S. tariffs that kicked in this week for China, Canada and Mexico will mean some hardship for North Dakota farmers, according to the leaders of North Dakota’s Farmers Union and Farm Bureau. “We will be the number one state that’s hit the hardest,