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Prepared for Glacier | Delivered August 14, 2020
Logistics Industry Canada-US
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Goals
To have analysis and data points on how the pandemic is affecting the logsitics industry between Canada and the US, across the border.
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Early Findings
Cross Border Logistics - Analysis
In addition to the pandemic, the recent implementation (July 1) of the USMCA trade agreement as well as new tariffs, is having an
impact
on the cross border logistics industry (US/Canada).
UMSCA
means
for example, that Canadians will not have to pay duties on goods under C$150, and goods under C$40 will be tax exempt. This comes as e-commerce is booming due to COVID-19.
The land border is
closed
to non-essential travel. Supply chain and logistics are the exception.
Customs paperwork is now being
done
via e-mail, texts and other electronic forms, and that is bringing with it some challenges. Rules for customs compliance are also ever shifting.
Some Canadian truckers have
expressed
concern about crossing into the US, due to the high number of cases there.
Cross Border Logistics - Data Points
According to Transport Canada, some
30,000
trucks cross the Canada-U.S. border every day, transporting an estimated $1 billion in goods.
Commercial traffic entering Canada remained relatively
stable
throughout the pandemic, when compared to last year, with weekly declines averaging between 10 and 30%.
Over the past
month
, the volume of trucks crossing the US-Canadian border has remained roughly stable, with a dip around the 2 and 3 of August. Likewise, the crossing duration was stable at around 9 to 10 minutes, but reaching an average of 14 minutes on 30 July.
Truck traffic crossing across all US-Canadian borders is at
75
% compared to normal volume.
Available Information
We found that most available information was either focused on the impact of USMCA on e-commerce and trade more broadly (rather than just the logistics industry), or that reports focused on the logistics industry under Covid didn't hone in only on to the US-Canadian border (that is, all the data was just for the US as a whole, for example).
Information that was available tended to focus more on the US-Mexican border, than the border with Canada.
While the logistics industry includes producing, obtaining, packaging, transporting and distributing products, the main element of the logistics industry that is impacted by land border regulations is transportion. Hence, we suggest focusing mostly on transportion (delivery, logistics) and trucking.
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