Mary Peltola, in an interview on MS NOW's Morning Joe, tells of an air taxi operator in Cordova who ordered $10,000 in parts from Canada and was told the tariff would be over 110%. She says these carriers are "life and death" for remote Alaska, carrying mail and transportation, and calls the retaliatory tariff war "bizarre," saying it brings everyone backwards.
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- Who
- Mary Peltola
- Where
- interview - MS NOW, Morning Joe
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- MS NOW · watch the full video from this moment
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- 59 seconds, unedited within the cut
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And then when you find yourself in the middle of this bizarre tariff war and these retaliatory tariffs that each country is putting on each other, all that does is bring us all backwards. I met a gentleman in Cordova a couple of weeks ago. He runs the air taxi service out of Cordova. And these are critical services. The folks who are running these air carriers, years. A lot of them are beneficiaries of essential air service. A lot of these communities really it's life and death. It's our mail. It's our transportation. It's everything, especially during freeze up and break up, which is the season we're in right now. We're in freeze up right now. But this gentleman in Cordova said he ordered $10 ,000 worth of parts from Canada. Got a call back a few days later saying the tariff would be over 110%. And he just threw his hands up in there and he said, I cannot afford $20 ,000 for $10 ,000 worth of parts.
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