As Canada’s farmers keep an eye on market impacts due to trade uncertainty, they’re also facing issues surrounding the equipment they use every day with U.S. duties raising the costs for not only tractors and cultivators, but also the parts needed to keep them working.

Though the broad U.S. tariffs imposed on numerous countries on April 2 did not include Canada, it still faces duties on steel, aluminum and the automobile industry.

Those tariffs on steel and aluminum are creating a bottleneck for many farmers.

“The tariffs that have been imposed on the steel and aluminum industry, in particular, have obviously increased the cost of equipment overall, including the parts to repair equipment that farmers currently own,” said Keith Currie, president of the Canadian Federation of Agricul

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