Washington farmers brace for impact of trade tariffs

Exports to Mexico will be impacted, as well as critical imports from Canada.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Life on a farm is always unpredictable. Usually, the weather is the biggest unknown.

This year, it’s the political climate.

“Uncertainty, I guess, is the word,” said Jason Vander Kooy of Harmony Farms in Mount Vernon.

Washington state exports about $50 million in dairy products to Mexico every year, but President Donald Trump’s tariffs will likely slow that flow to a trickle. 

Forty percent of Vander Kooy’s milk exports go to Mexico. It’s a market that will likely go sour.

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