Extra US vacationers go to Canada than Canucks journey to America for first time ever

Tourists from the Great White North are giving the US the chilly shoulder.

In a shock twist to the continuing commerce conflict between North American neighbors, July marked the primary time ever extra Americans road-tripped it to Canada, than vice versa.

That month noticed 1.8 million US automobile journeys into Canada, in comparison with 1.7 million Canadian excursions to the Land of the Free, new data from Statistics Canada released Monday discovered.

Travel in each instructions is slumping, nonetheless, as commerce tensions between the 2 allies boil over.

US visits to its northern neighbor dropped 7.4% from final July — usually the busiest journey month of the yr — whereas Canadian highway journeys to America nosedived by a staggering 37%.

It marked the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines in tourism, following President Trump’s February announcement that he was implementing tariffs on Canada, whereas additionally joking that he deliberate to make the nation the 51st state, which led to Canucks cancelling their US holidays in droves.

The two international locations blew previous an Aug. 1 trade-deal deadline and are actually locked in a tit-for-tat tariff battle. The US is concentrating on Canadian items not coated by the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement with tariffs of as much as 50%, and Canada imposing 25% counter-tariffs on billions of US exports.