For entrepreneurs Anthony and Nancy Wingham, looming U.S. tariffs mean hastening efforts to move their company’s manufacturing and expansion into the beauty market south of the border.
“As much as we’re worried about the tariffs, I guess it’s just speeding that process up,” said Anthony Wingham, a Metis co-owner of Nuez Acres, a Langley beauty company offering pecan oil-based and waterless products.
Although a possible trade war could have significant impacts to businesses countrywide, Indigenous businesses would be disproportionately impacted by tariffs, according to the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business.
The council said in a Feb. 6 announcement that of the Canadian Indigenous businesses that export, 19 per cent of their revenues come
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