Business owners and residents say the policy could affect everything from produce prices to whether or not Canadian customers visit this year.

Trump put 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday. Markets tanked. And by Thursday, he had decided to broadly lift them.

B.C. Premier David Eby says the province will introduce legislation in the coming days that would give it the ability to levy fees on commercial trucks travelling from the United States through the province to Alaska.

With President Donald Trump telling members of Congress Tuesday new U.S. tariffs imposed on Mexico, Canada and China will mean “a little disturbance,” an Alaska economist used coffee as an example to say 49th state consumers should prepare to pay even higher than the Lower 48 because of Alaska’s historic difficulty importing items.

Meanwhile, President Trump vowing to *move forward* with his tariffs on Canada and Mexico. After a month-long suspension, he says those import taxes *will* take effect in March.

The difficulty of both importing diverse products and moving away from non-US produced goods, the chair of the University of Alaska - Anchorage’s economics department said, leaves Alaska “uniquely vulnerable” to 25% tariffs the Trump administration imposed.

The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 more active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration and fulfill a central promise of his campaign.