For decades, Arctic Snowplows has sold its Canadian-made galvanized steel products to “anywhere there is snow” across the border in the United States, says company president Mike Schulz.

But a year into U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, some of those customers have been lost, with buyers unwilling to stomach higher prices forced by U.S. tariffs on imported steel.

“Adding an extra $500 (US$363) on the cost of a $10,000 plow, it’s a huge hit,” Schulz told AFP, as a heavy snow fell outside the company’s factory in London, Ont., 190 kilometres southwest of Toronto.

“It’s something we can’t afford to just absorb and it’s something that customers in the States don’t want to pay,” Schulz said on the factory floor, surrounded by racks of bright orange plows.

With U.S. sales falling, the company founded in 1969 is facing “very uncertain times,” he said.

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