The New Brunswick automotive sector “bangs” in the trade war

An ambulance and vehicle manufacturer adapted to New Brunswick already says the effects of the trade war against Canada by the United States.

Malley Industriesbased in Dieppe, sells its vehicles on both sides of the border. His activities are disrupted and complicated by prices and by counter-tale, explained in an interview the chief executive officer of this company, Terry Malley.

Customs prices now apply to its sales in the United States.

The greatest frustration is to have to educate our American customersdeclares Terry Malley. We must let them know that our prices have not changed, that these additional costs are caused by their government.

Malley Industries has already delivered a few vehicles in the United States before the taxation of prices. Customers now ask him to delay their deliveries in the hope that customs duties will disappear one day.

Terry Malley said he had a good stock of vehicles that have been assembled before prices no longer make deliveries to American customers.

If this economic war lasts, he warns, he will have no choice but to sell his more expensive products. Its vehicles use chassis of Stellantis et Fordrespectively made in Mexico and the United States.

Malley Industries is not the only automotive company in the province to have delivered vehicles in a hurry to the United States before the entry into force of the prices, underlines Ron MarcolinDivisional vice-president of the Association of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters in New Brunswick.

He qualifies the customs tariffs of giant matrix what No one has yet managed to understand.

Documents must be filled before the border, but everyone, including customs officials, learns as and when it comes to prices.

We waste a lot of time with all this paperwork,, that Ron Marcolin. And the cost is excruciating.

To put it frankly, we waste precious time and we get bogged down when we could freezehe says.

Keeping a stock of vehicles is not ideal either, he notes, because there are storage costs, insurance and depreciation of vehicles.

Terry Malley Think that the layoffs that have already started in the United States as well as possible factories will force the US government to react to the dissatisfaction of voters.

He points out that many of its competitors in the United States also receive during this trade war because they import Canada steel.

The president of Malley Industries maintains that it remains optimistic. His Canadian customers keep him busy, he said.

His business employs 80 people and does not intend to make launch at the moment.

Companies in Atlantic Canada are used to managing difficult periodsdeclares Terry Malley. We survived Trump Before, I think we will survive again. We will still be there a long time after him.

According to the report of Jennifer Sweet. of CBC