From Global News.

On a sunny Friday afternoon, four customers were browsing the shelves in West Coast Duty Free at the Pacific Highway border crossing in B.C.

"We should have 40 or 50 customers," Gary Holowaychuk, one of the owners told Global News.

"We are down 70 per cent to 80 per cent from where we should be. And it’s just very slowly, slowly getting better. I’m laying off staff, I am trying to keep the staff I have working, but it’s very, very difficult."

Holowaychuk is hopeful July and August will be better with summer travel, but even on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he will impose a 35 per cent tariff on Canadian goods on Aug. 1.

"It’s like another gut punch, every, almost every time he opens up and says anything, we notice it right away," Holowaychuk said.

New data from Statistics Canada, released on Friday, showed cross-border travel is still in steep decline.

Global’s Troy Charles reports.

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