“Durum’s much the same,” he said.

“Nothing in the extreme west or Alberta goes that direction because the freight is not advantageous.”

Derek Brewin, an agricultural economics professor with the University of Manitoba, doubts the tariffs will have much impact on CWRS prices.

“I don’t think a small reduction in flows to the U.S. will hurt Canada as much as the tariffs will hurt canola oil, where the U.S. is their major buyer,” Brewin wrote in an email.

“There is a huge share of Canadian Hard Spring that flows out of Vancouver to final customers in Asia and the Middle East and west coast Latin America. If the U.S. adds a tariff on our wheat, it is more likely to drive up U.S. hard spring prices than have much effect on those trade flows or prices at the West Coast.”

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“Maybe they have to face a tariff or maybe they don’t, and that’s going to cause them to delay investment, cut back orders, hours for employees,” he said. 

“If you’re a working Manitoban and you’re working at a factory and your boss is worried about tariffs, you may not get as many hours, maybe not getting overtime anymore. You feel the pinch a little bit.”

Au said it’s hard to tell whether Trump will actually carry out his threats, but if he does, Canada must strike back.

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