As the latest change to the Canada-U.S. trade relationship is about to take effect, Melissa Caracas Le-Fort is facing a deadline of her own.
After Caracas Le-Fort announced on social media mid-August that her business would no longer take orders from American customers after Aug. 26, requests for custom-made pet tags began pouring in.
Now, she and her husband, Carlos, are putting in 12-hour days to fulfil over 300 orders before Friday, when the costs of shipping items south of the border will go up exponentially.
“We cannot ask the U.S. customers to pay that, and we can’t absorb it ourselves,” said Caracas Le-Fort, founder of Winnipeg-based Tag4MyPet….