Despite politicians north and south of the border pledging to continue talks on Buy America provisions, protectionism is affecting the geosynthetics trade between Canada and the Untied States. Fredericton, New Brunswick’s Geomembrane Technologies, which produces many floating covers, for example, has had to break relationships with Canadian firms in order to establish distributors in the United States so that the Buy America law does not remove Geomembrane Technologies from many of its regular customers and markets.

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