Which cities are being hurt by American tariffs and how many employees are at some risk?

By Gazette Staff

October 8^th, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

The University of Toronto School of Cities has collected data on the impact American tariffs are having on Canadian corporations.

They have created an interactive map – that many will find useful as they struggle to gain an understanding of what it taking place and what steps they can take to limit the financial damage.

Link to the interactive map is HERE

Anyone can explore a colour-coded map that reveals communities most and least vulnerable to impacts, such as slowing sales and job losses, from rapidly changing taxes that Trump has imposed on U.S. businesses buying Canadian goods including steel and auto parts.

Users can search potential impacts on regional businesses, or on people by where they work, or on people by where they live, and isolate their vulnerability to Trump’s tariffs in specific impacted sectors including automobiles, aluminum, copper and lumber.

The researchers compared 41 city census areas based on their percentage of workers “directly exposed” to U.S. tariff impacts. Chilliwack, B.C., with many jobs in agriculture and manufacturing, had the highest share of vulnerable workers, at 17.5 per cent while St. John’s, N.L., had the lowest at 2.6 per cent.