Jay in Erie News Now on the Canada-US tariff escalation. Video segment plus a full print interview. The pre-tariff inventory window closes mid-October. Cost reduction is the immediate lever for owners. Political pressure will drive both sides back to the table before it stabilizes.
2 segments · 1 video · 1 article · 4 direct quotes
Both segments ran on erienewsnow.com on September 8, 2026, with Jay quoted as Chief Growth Officer of International Services, Inc.
Erie News Now's video coverage of the September 8 tariff activation. The trade war between the United States and Canada escalating, new Canadian tariffs on US goods taking effect, billions of dollars of trade exposed. Jay featured as the operator voice on what the escalation actually means for small and mid-sized businesses caught between two governments.
Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as New Tariffs Take Effect
“For the individuals that are going to have products that are affected by the tariffs, it's do you have the cash flow to go out and buy inventory and stockpile as this trade war wages on.”
“For me, it's finding the area of reduction in cost that they can use to offset this. And that's the biggest issue.”
“Inventory right now of the tariff products itself is pre-tariff inventory till about mid-October and November and that's when you're really going to see the pain. As a consumer, if you have some large purchase sitting on your kitchen table that you're deciding, I would move that agenda up and obviously buy it earlier than later.”
“It's going to start creating political issues on both sides of the border. I think that is the pain that they will feel, in most cases, to drive them to a position to get back to the table and start negotiating.”
Erie News Now covered the September 8 activation of Canada's retaliatory tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of US goods, with duties running from 15 to 50 percent. Jay was interviewed at length as an operator voice on what the trade war actually means for the small and mid-sized business owner watching two governments negotiate above their head. The Aldebert read: pre-tariff inventory buffers the pain through October, then October and November are when the wall gets hit. Cost reduction is the only immediate lever most owners can pull, and the political pressure that eventually forces both sides back to the negotiating table is the same political pressure caused by small business owners on both sides of the border feeling the wall first.
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