The price tag on a few items sold in the historic Charleston City Market is up slightly because of tariff policies, vendors say, and there are varying reactions on how they have affected local tourist traffic.

Meanwhile, the ever-changing cost of tariffs imposed or threatened by the Trump administration on foreign goods, particularly from Canada, has turned some Canadians off from traveling to the Grand Strand and other major U.S. cities, according to news reports.

But overall, tourism in Charleston was extremely strong in April, said Daniel Guttentag, assistant professor of hospitality and tourism management and the director of the College of Charleston’s Office of Tourism Analysis.

If an economic downturn caused by the tariffs occurs, “then generally speaking the tourism economy, like

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