Border crossings from Canada into the US dropped by near 1,000,000 travellers in March in comparison with the identical month final yr, suggesting Canadians are avoiding the US whereas U.S. President Donald Trump threatens tariffs and annexation.
It’s the bottom border site visitors since COVID-19 restricted journey.
The newest knowledge from U.S. Customs and Border Safety launched late Monday says 4,105,516 travellers have been logged crossing into the US by means of its northern border with Canada final month by air and land, which is a drop of 864,844 travellers from March 2024 when 4,970,360 travellers have been logged.
That’s a lower of 17.4 per cent.
Cross border journey from Canada into the US was hovering on the finish of 2024, shaking off the diminished journey after the COVID-19 pandemic. Via October, November, December and January, there was extra U.S.-bound travellers year-over-year since 2022, when pandemic journey restrictions ended.
Trump began taunting Canada and threatening huge financial and political modifications in January, after his inauguration in his second time period as president.
In February, near 500,000 fewer travellers have been logged crossing into the US from Canada. There have been 3,504,873 travellers counted that month, down from 3,965,547 throughout the identical month final yr. That’s 460,674 fewer crossing.
The brand new U.S. statistics mirror knowledge coming from Canada.
Final week, Statistics Canada stated Canadians made far fewer return journeys to the US in March in comparison with the earlier March.
Statistics Canada says the variety of Canadians coming back from the U.S. by car was down nearly 32 per cent in comparison with March 2024, the third consecutive month of year-over-year declines. Return journeys from the U.S. by air have been down 13.5 per cent in the identical intervals.
The variety of Canadian residents coming back from journeys to the US this previous March was 1,453,842, down from 2,134,069 in March 2024.
In distinction, return journeys to Canada from different international locations had elevated by nearly 9 per cent.
The diminished site visitors movement reduce each methods.
The variety of U.S.-resident journeys to Canada by car was 770,400, a decline of 10.6 per cent from the identical month in 2024. This was the second consecutive month of year-over-year decline.
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