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| Online sales in border town slows with weak Canadian dollar | Fewer Canadians appear to be ordering products online and having it shipped to Washington as the Canadian dollar weakens against the U.S. dollar. |
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| Northern Exposure: Loonie’s Fall Is Freezing Up Business at Border | When Edaleen Dairy opened the first of three new outlets in Washington state, the Canadian dollar was worth about the same as the U.S. dollar and shoppers were flowing across the border from British Columbia. |
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| Point Roberts dulled by sagging loonie | They're definitely feeling the pinch in the Point. Businesses in the tiny U.S. peninsula of Point Roberts have seen sales fall along with the declining Canadian dollar, but that doesn't mean shoppers have stopped crossing the line entirely. Border crossings into Point Roberts… |
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| What’s next for cross-border spending in Whatcom and Canada | It’s Canada’s turn to host the cross-border shopper, but it may not be at the level of spending seen in the U.S. when the loonie was strong. That’s one conclusion from TD Economics, a Canadian firm that released a report about cross-border spending on Monday, Feb. 8. The report indicates… |
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| Cross-border traffic into Whatcom the slowest in five years | With the Canadian dollar remaining weak throughout 2015, last year was the slowest in terms of local southbound border traffic in five years. Last year just under 13.4 million people entered Whatcom County through the five border crossings, 2.5 million people fewer than in 2014, according… |
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| Canadian analyst predicts all-time low for the loonie | The value of the Canadian dollar may drop to an all-time low by the end of the year. The loonie slipped to 69.9 cents on the U.S. dollar on January 11, the first time it’s dipped below 70 cents since 2003, and Canada’s top-ranking forecaster says the decline hasn’t stopped. ¶Ù²¹±¹¾±»å… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø students study freight traffic at border | Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute is involved in a two-year project researching the movement of freight across the U.S.-Canada border at the Sumas, Lynden and Blaine truck crossings. The project with the Whatcom Council of Governments involves Western… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø to Host ‘The Changing Canadian Economy and Whatcom County’ Nov. 18 | |||
| Border traffic update: September traffic down 27 percent | In September, 982,249 passengers crossed southbound into Whatcom County, according to data from Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute. That’s a 27.38 percent decrease from September 2014, when 1,352,286 people crossed southbound into Whatcom County. |
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| Border traffic into Whatcom County continues to slow | Southbound border traffic continues to slow as the Canadian dollar hovers around an 11-year low. Around 1.4 million people crossed the five border crossings into Whatcom County in August, according to data gathered by Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute. That’… |