Business owners and residents say the policy could affect everything from produce prices to whether or not Canadian customers visit this year.

With President Donald Trump telling members of Congress Tuesday new U.S. tariffs imposed on Mexico, Canada and China will mean “a little disturbance,” an Alaska economist used coffee as an example to say 49th state consumers should prepare to pay even higher than the Lower 48 because of Alaska’s historic difficulty importing items.

The difficulty of both importing diverse products and moving away from non-US produced goods, the chair of the University of Alaska - Anchorage’s economics department said, leaves Alaska “uniquely vulnerable” to 25% tariffs the Trump administration imposed.

The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 more active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration and fulfill a central promise of his campaign.