Gov. Jared Polis, interview about tariffs in The Washington Post:
The risk has delayed and canceled investments in manufacturing in Colorado and across the country. Nobody knows if they can even get the parts and materials they need. Nobody knows if they’ll be able to export to international markets from a factory in the United States. And that uncertainty will be with us for years to come. It’ll take a long time to dig out of this, to attract capital the way we have for the last few decades.
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It affects nearly every Colorado business. I talked to a craft brewer the other day — Colorado’s known for our craft brewing industry — they were concerned. Their barley’s from Canada, the glass is from China. They were worried that the market couldn’t support major price increases for beer and it could drive them out of business. [Or] take large-scale beer — Molson Coors, [which owns breweries in Canada and the United States, including in Colorado]. They’ve been thrown into internal chaos with regard to what has been a fully integrated supply between Canada and the United States, [with] great uncertainty around what will come next.
Beyond the immediate damage from tariffs, there’s also the reputational damage to the United States for international tourism. We’re already seeing decreased tourism to our country, and Colorado is a heavy tourism market. So we’re concerned about that reputational damage that is an indirect result of the trade war.