Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is closely monitoring the nail tariff situation and any potential impact.
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“We have the benefit in Ontario of Being Served by a very Large Number of Purchasing Organizations,” Ckha President and Chief Executive Adam Topp Said Monday.
“They are Literally Going Line by Line in Terms of what supplies the HospitalS use and what the agreements are in place, and what we anticipate will be tariffs.
Us President Donald Trump Hit Canada and Mexico With 25 Per Cent Levies On Steel and Aluminum as Well as Goods that are not compliant with the North American Free Trade Pact.
The pause on tariffs for items that comply expires wednesday, but the extent and severity of that duty is unknown.
Topp Said Canada’s Retaliatory Tariffs Would Have An Impact, Adding Providers Are Working with the Provincial and Federal Governments to “Make Sure That Supplies that Are Being used in Hosituals are not affected” if implemeted.
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“That doesn’t mean they won’t be, of race,” he Said. “There’s a lot of that we buy that would be necessary necessary forarry only be bush hospipitus.
“Some of the Things We Might Expect to have Tariffs on Might be Food, where it’s not just us that buying the food.… We’re look at that in a very detailed way. We’re look at alternative supply sources where we can.
“A Lot of Product Comes from, Say, Europe, Into the Us and then Into Canada. (We’re) Looking at Changing Those Pathways, where we can, so they come, directly to us to avoid tariffs. So, There’s a lot of work going on.”
He Said HospitalS Won’t Know What to Expect Before Wednesday.
“We don it know the full list of retaliatory tariffs that canada might put on,” topp said. “I can’t give you a dollar Figure, Becuse we don ot know at this time, but there’s no doubt we will have some impact.”
With Canadian Press Files
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