{"id":832559,"date":"2025-03-08T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/trump-tariff-threats-already-costing-windsor-industry-millions-in-lost-business\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:13:24","slug":"trump-tariff-threats-already-costing-windsor-industry-millions-in-lost-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/trump-tariff-threats-already-costing-windsor-industry-millions-in-lost-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariff threats already costing Windsor industry millions in lost business"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-labelledby=\"articleTitle\" data-wcm-id=\"0426beb1-3212-4f1f-b2a3-7130e5894e1f\">\n<header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Published Feb 12, 2025<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span>5 minute read<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure data-aqa=\"featured-image\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=564&#038;h=423&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=PcYCa9yEMYGzOD6H0z0a_w, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1128&#038;h=846&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=vsXNnfDKipyohIfgykZ2ag 2x\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=564&#038;h=423&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=DBXym-nS86w6Bq0not-FPg, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1128&#038;h=846&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=K59pBwk0Yfpr1QzXsKHmOQ 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=472&#038;h=354&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=V6qQE1SZGnsp62IWUCJcfw, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=944&#038;h=708&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=jS060kw91vLObAWSJ2L85w 2x\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=472&#038;h=354&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=WjutpDcOBMEYkoBO_6l8Xw, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=944&#038;h=708&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=EUvIGK6QECbosdvSS8w3Cw 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=ZWfMmsGO-TiD4N-JJL5Seg, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=576&#038;h=432&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=b5np3ruAK03JIXGRSeIaTw 2x\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216&#038;sig=-c4PJDU-wFlQjBHH0b0b3A\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216&#038;sig=-c4PJDU-wFlQjBHH0b0b3A,\n                    https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=576&#038;h=432&#038;sig=cUgqJW3kvjMzLnExHrsh2A 2x\" alt=\"tariffs\" height=\"750\" width=\"1000\"><\/picture><figcaption><span>Trump tariff threats target Canadian steel, aluminum: Workers are shown at the construction site of a new manufacturing facility on County Road 42 east of the Windsor Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.<\/span> <span>Photo by Dan Janisse<\/span> \/<span>Windsor Star<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<p>The steel and aluminum tariffs announced Monday by President Trump, which could reach as high as 50 per cent, won\u2019t take effect until March 12 but the uncertainty that\u2019s been created is already costing local manufacturers millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already had about $5 million worth of work, that should\u2019ve been placed at Cavalier, not get placed,\u201d said Cavalier Tool and Manufacturing president Brian Bendig. \u201cThey kept it in the states.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-aqa=\"identity-sign-in\" data-async id=\"article-block\">\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windsor Star\" height=\"37\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital\/18.1.3\/websites\/images\/identity\/logo-identity-ws-new.svg\" width=\"280\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account.<\/li>\n<li>Get exclusive access to the Windsor Star ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists.<\/li>\n<li>Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists.<\/li>\n<li>Daily puzzles including the New York 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an interview with Fox News on Monday. \u201cCould be 50 or 100 per cent because we don\u2019t want their cars. We want to make the cars in Detroit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With Trump constantly changing deadlines and moving the goalposts, it\u2019s disrupting businesses on either side of the Canada-U.S. border in various sectors. The latest steel and aluminum tariffs are currently the most pressing, proving particularly troublesome and slowing local business activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other problem we have right now, we don\u2019t know how to price our jobs because of all these tariffs,\u201d Bendig told the Star. \u201cHow do they set a budget on their side?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are scrambling and pivoting. The reality is almost nothing is moving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur quotes are down. Our orders are down our purchase orders are down. They (U.S. customers) want to work with us, but they\u2019re just not sure how.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While larger local companies like Cavalier can ride out the turbulence for a while, Bendig fears for the smaller firms.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe younger, smaller shops we don\u2019t feel will be competitive at all and more than likely will close,\u201d Bendig said. \u201cA lot of the small shops rely on guys like us to feed them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf my orders get cut back 20 to 30 per cent, the ripple effect is my supplier at the bottom is stopped immediately because I don\u2019t have anything to give to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s already happening. I\u2019m taking phone calls, \u2018Can you give me this or that?\u2019 and I can\u2019t because I\u2019m keeping it in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canadian manufacturing won\u2019t be alone in experiencing the pain of Trump\u2019s tariffs, said Peter Frise, a University of Windsor professor of mechanical and automotive engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The cascading effect will impact every facet of the U.S. economy, driving inflationary pricing from automotive vehicles to canned goods to aerospace and construction, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a puzzling move because American business and consumers will be hurt as much or more than Canadian business and consumers,\u201d said Frise, who is also the former director of UWindsor\u2019s Automotive Research and Education Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end it will lead to products costing more and a drastic decrease in production. Once products, like cars stop selling because they cost thousands more, it\u2019s a pretty straight line to layoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<figure data-aqa=\"embed-image\"><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=564&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=_1CloVV3GN_e4M317ygO9w, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1128&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=zVD_wxmFD3rXVQ5K-4PWLg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\"  type=\"image\/webp\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=564&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=ETPniCZfpI8Z2wRuJBJvAA, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1128&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=4_LIkKBLUo1kQ5nIhBfe9A 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\"  type=\"image\/jpeg\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=472&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=8VJpHa4M0JeLkUb-FNTA6w, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=944&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=MguDhfhR3aYGjfcuACGzUQ 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\"  type=\"image\/webp\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=472&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=a8FdwfSj6Bd8I-3ygyIXAw, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=944&#038;type=jpg&#038;sig=WJTKMtl_3QwZSESyLYDPOQ 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\"  type=\"image\/jpeg\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=bFPTIzmRe5z_Yyvyy__WJA, \nhttps:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=576&#038;type=webp&#038;sig=h-mlsg3ymZ8nLHiuLaG6UA 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 767px)\"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;sig=CjgGtexHmmDDML6W_lGJ9Q\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;sig=CjgGtexHmmDDML6W_lGJ9Q,\n                https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/windsorstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/steel2-e1739379264247.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=576&#038;sig=30GXhGSBRbWCVVSEsw03AA 2x\" alt=\"tariffs\" height=\"737\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"487\"><\/picture><figcaption><span> A worker is sandwiched between steel beams at the construction site of a new industrial plant on County Road 42 east of Windsor Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.<\/span> <span>Photo by Dan Janisse<\/span> \/<span>Windsor Star<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Frise said he knows local manufacturers have tried to increase their inventory of steel and aluminum to avoid the tariffs, but that is a small and short-term solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen sales dry up sufficiently, there\u2019s going to be layoffs locally,\u201d Frise told the Star. \u201cIt\u2019ll hurt Windsor companies because they also rely on a lot of American parts. The costs of those minivans will rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very serious situation and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to go away. Trump will keep coming back for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has long believed tariffs will help the U.S. increase its domestic production of these two key products, U.S. trade statistics indicate that strategy doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. steel industry\u2019s production in 2024 was one per cent lower than in 2017 when Trump first used his tariff club. U.S. aluminum production has dropped nearly 10 per cent over the same time frame.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump is not listening to anyone from Canada<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey are vulnerable on steel and aluminum, that\u2019s why this strategy makes no sense,\u201d Frise said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a 25 per cent tax on Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frise said he expects the American business community will prove Canada\u2019s best ally in securing a negotiated end to tariffs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best thing we can do is inform our partners in the U.S. business community to take this issue on,\u201d Frise said. \u201cTrump is not listening to anyone from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, he is tuned into the U.S. business community. My guess is there is a vigorous but quiet effort from U.S. business going on behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t want to be harmed by this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those American voices grew louder Tuesday when Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley told those gathered at the Wolfe Research Auto Tech and Semiconductor Conference in New York City that Trump\u2019s tariffs were resulting in a \u2018lot of cost and a lot of chaos\u2019 in the automotive industry.<\/p>\n<p>Farley said Trump\u2019s package of tariffs threatened to \u201cblow a hole in the U.S. industry like we\u2019ve never seen.\u201d He was scheduled to be in Washington D.C. Wednesday to meet with federal officials to discuss his concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. vulnerability on metals is illustrated by it needing to import 80 per cent of the aluminum it uses, with Canada supplying 60 per cent of the total American need.<\/p>\n<p>Canada shipped 3.2 million metric tons of aluminum to the U.S. in 2024 worth $15.9 billion.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Canada supplied about one quarter of the steel the U.S. imported in 2024 while 40 per cent of Canadian steel imports come from the U.S.<\/p>\n<section aria-labelledby=\"moreTopicLabel1689818674410948771282196021379072\" data-aqa=\"embed-more-topic\" data-carousel-component data-carousel-icon-button data-carousel-type=\"list\">\n<p>Recommended from Editorial<\/p>\n<ol data-carousel-slide-list tabindex=\"0\">\n<li data-evt-val=\"{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"data_source\": \"data_source\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", 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Jonathon Azzopardi cautioned Canadian government officials need to be strategic and targeted in any tariff responses. He noted slapping a 25 per cent tariff on U.S. steel would be a double tariff on Canadian manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe import U.S. steel and turn it into something else that we ship back to the U.S.,\u201d said Azzopardi, whose firm is located in Oldcastle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do something with it then, ship it back to us to finish. 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