Brigitta Miranda-Freer

Tariffs issued under emergency declarations last May disrupted Montana business's relationships with foreign partners. A year later, they’re still causing wide-scale uncertainty.

Canada is Montana’s largest trading partner. But, the ongoing U.S. trade war is putting pressure on that relationship. That's led to higher costs, shrinking markets and uncertainty for Montana farmers as they begin their planting season.

Imagine pulling out a new board game's instructions and discovering that the normally skinny pamphlet runs thousands of pages and spells out the rules of…