Article 78N5Q ‘It’s just getting worse’: anger in Maine over Trump’s trade war with close neighbor Canada

‘It’s just getting worse’: anger in Maine over Trump’s trade war with close neighbor Canada

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Gaya Gupta in Bangor, Maine
from US news | The Guardian on (#78N5Q)

President's tariffs have hurt fishers, loggers and others in a state with deep bonds to Canada - will voters show their displeasure in the midterms?

It was an ideal summer to cut trees.

The weather in Maine's Penobscot county - one of the most heavily forested counties in a state dense with trees - was warm and dry. Yet even as the county's wood had grown to an ideal size to harvest, the machines Molly London typically uses sat idle.

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